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EU slaps Meta with antitrust charges for allegedly squeezing out classified ad rivals

December 21, 2022 - antitrust laws in June 2021 following complaints from Meta's rivals that the firm unfairly linked Marketplace's online classified ads service to Facebook and was using non-public advertising data obtained from competitors to optimize Marketplace.

This is the first time that the EU has accused Meta of abusing its dominant position in the market. But this is not the first time that the bloc has fined the company. Around five years ago, the EU fined Facebook 110 million ...

Antitrust laws and big tech – this is how we save the 1st amendment

June 03, 2019 -

(Article by Greg Reese republished from Infowars.com)

Infowars reporter Greg Reese explains how Trump can stop the tech giants from destroying free speech.https://youtu.be/l7VUSl4cc4A

Read more at: Infowars.com or check out FirstAmendment.news.

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Not just Big Tech: Legacy media slapped with antitrust lawsuit for censoring covid-related content

January 13, 2023 -

First launched in March 2020 at the onset of "covid," the TNI worked alongside social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, as well as numerous legacy media outlets, to silence people's free speech, which is unconstitutional and violates antitrust restrictions, the suit alleges.

The BBC, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters, and The Washington Post, among others, are all members of TNI, and are thus named as defendants in the suit.

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Breaking: Landmark lawsuit slaps legacy media with antitrust, First Amendment claims for censoring COVID-related content

January 12, 2023 - antitrust and First Amendment claims.

Remarking on the lawsuit, Kennedy told The Defender:

“My uncle, President Kennedy, and my father, the attorney general, sought to prosecute antitrust laws that are still on the nation’s books, with vigor.

“As private enforcers of those laws, we are confident that the federal court in Texas will vindicate our bedrock freedom to compete with legacy media in the marketplace of ideas.”

Mary Holland, ...

A3P’s Mike Davis says Google’s control of online advertising is linchpin of Big Tech MONOPOLY

March 21, 2023 -

"Google's online advertising monopoly is the linchpin to all of Big Tech's monopoly. If you break that up, you're really going to see Big Tech start to function properly," he said during his March 15 appearance on "Bannon's War Room."

"Remember: The whole point of antitrust 100 years ago is a free market. [It] requires a functioning market, and when you have a monopolist using their market power to crush competition [and] to crush competitors – you no longer have ...

Amazon illegally harvested kids’ data via Alexa-powered ‘smart’ speakers

April 09, 2023 - antitrust paradox,” wherein Amazon has been able to amass significant market power, attaining an anticompetitive position even as it uses its logistical advantages to provide consumers with lower prices.

The paper argued in favor of restoring “traditional antitrust and competition policy” or applying “common carrier obligations and duties” traditionally required of telecommunications, transport and pipeline companies.

Amazon has taken issue with Khan ...

Hate bot ChatGPT shows you the evil within big tech (and Republicans who protect them)

February 07, 2023 - antitrust enforcement against Big Tech would have happened. Jim Jordan stepped in to stop it.

He distributed a memo from Google lobbyists to Republicans. I exclusively obtained the memo at the time.

Tucker Carlson was not impressed, and Jim Jordan was flabbergasted when asked about it.

Tucker Carlson reported on the Jim Jordan memo I exclusively published.

Watch this segment and tell me what detail is missing. pic.twitter.com/j5kfiAuG5I

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PHARMACEUTICAL FRAUD: Big Pharma’s corporate lawlessness cost Americans over $40B in 2019 alone

May 19, 2023 -

The report, released on May 16 by the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP) and the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), zeroed in on the pharmaceutical giants' antitrust law violations. According to AELP and I-MAK, these are the main reasons why drug prices in America are skyrocketing at record-high levels compared to those of other rich nations.

"American families are paying far too much for prescription drugs, in large part due to rampant ...

“Landmark” lawsuit accuses mainstream media of forming coalition to censor “misinformation”

January 16, 2023 - antitrust laws that are still on the nation’s books, with vigor,” Kennedy told The Defender.

“As private enforcers of those laws, we are confident that the federal court in Texas will vindicate our bedrock freedom to compete with legacy media in the marketplace of ideas.”CHD president Mary Holland said: “I’m glad that CHD is bringing this case. We are hopeful we will get a fair hearing, and I’m glad that we are together with other organizations that have also ...

Nineteen U.S. states launch investigations into BlackRock and Vanguard for embracing climate tyranny

December 14, 2022 -

BlackRock and Vanguard, which together control a sizable bulk of the world's wealth, are targets of House Republicans who want to know: are either of them, or both, violating any antitrust laws with their ESG push? (Related: BlackRock and Vanguard own the media and Big Pharma.)

Vanguard recently bowed out of the so-called Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, which is a step in the right direction. However, both it and BlackRock are still heavily invested ...

Major lawsuit filed against legacy media conglomerates for colluding to censor views critical of COVID-19 policies, vaccines

January 13, 2023 -

This first-of-its-kind lawsuit claims that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Washington Post, Reuters and the Associated Press (AP) have violated antitrust laws and the constitutionally-protected First Amendment of smaller publishers. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas – Amarillo Division, seeks damages in the millions of dollars. (Related: Lawsuit uncovers bombshell connection between CDC and social media ...

FTC to sue Amazon for illegally harvesting data of children via smart speakers

April 06, 2023 - antitrust campaigns.

Speaking at a recent conference in Washington, D.C., Khan said the law "prohibits firms from condition access to certain services on an endless collection of data." She added that the law has "substantive limitations on when firms can be collecting data."

Several years before her appointment to the FTC, Khan published a legal paper in the Yale Law Journal characterizing Amazon as a modern monopolist whose market power was so massive that ...

After SIX DECADES of insidious corruption, Pfizer STILL dominates the US medical industrial complex while manufacturing DEADLY vaccines

July 16, 2023 - antitrust charges by the US Justice Department for charging "egregiously high prices" and for establishing a monopoly on the production and distribution of prescription drugs for nearly a whole decade. They had rigged their antibiotic prices through patenting schemes.Next, Pfizer developed "blockbuster drugs" that generated $1 billion in revenue annually, presenting long-term problems and patent issues

Blockbuster drugs generate over $1 billion per year in revenue ...

Sen. Tom Cotton says China destroyed evidence about covid lab leak to bury “smoking gun”

March 10, 2023 - antitrust violations?)Even Biden's Energy Department now agrees that covid likely came from a lab "leak"

The New York Times disagrees, having published a hit piece on Cotton claiming that "no new evidence but plenty of political theater" came about in this week's round of hearings.

The fake news giant is trying to steer the narrative that we simply cannot know where covid came from because there is not enough "conclusive evidence" one way or another. Cotton ...

RFK Jr. blasts media as PROPAGANDA ORGANS for government agencies

July 12, 2023 - antitrust law has its own name for this kind of 'industry partnership': it's called a 'group boycott,'" the complaint said. "While the TNI publicly purports to be a self-appointed 'truth police' extirpating online 'misinformation,' in fact it has suppressed wholly accurate and legitimate reporting in furtherance of the economic self-interest of its members."

Listen to this conversation between RFK Jr. and the Health Ranger Mike Adams on different topics, free speech ...

Electric vehicles are unreliable and not cost-efficient – especially in cold weather

January 04, 2023 - antitrust regulator Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said it would impose a 2.85 billion won ($2.2 million) fine on Tesla for failing to tell its customers about the shorter driving range of its electric vehicles in low temperatures.

According to the agency, the EV brand has exaggerated the "driving ranges of its cars on a single charge, their fuel cost-effectiveness compared to gasoline vehicles as well as the performance of its superchargers" on its official ...

NEVER FORGET: Jury found Pfizer guilty of violating antiracketeering law

January 18, 2023 - antitrust lawsuit claiming that the company did some questionable maneuvering to keep cheaper generics off the market.

In addition to Pfizer's DoJ settlement involving Neurontin, Pfizer was also fined $2.3 billion in 2009 involving the false advertising of their other medicines. The pharmaceutical giant pled guilty to misbranding the painkiller Bextra with "the intent to defraud or mislead," promoting the drug to treat acute pain at dosages the FDA had previously ...

NEVER FORGET: Pfizer manipulated studies to convince doctors to prescribe seizure drug Neurontin for off-label use

January 10, 2023 - antitrust lawsuit claiming that the company attempted some illegal maneuvering to keep cheaper generic alternatives to Neurontin off the market. In June, 2014, Pfizer agreed to pay another $325 million to wrap up claims that another of its subsidiaries, Parke-Davis, promoted Neurontin for off-brand use without the approval of the Food and Drug Administration.

Overall, Pfizer was fined around $1.087 billion from 2004 to 2014 for its illegal off-label promotion of ...