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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Biden Administration likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies to censor content on the coronavirus and elections.

Google is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly scraping the personal data of millions of users without consent and violating copyright laws to develop its AI products, CNN reported on Tuesday, July 11th.

The lawsuit was filed at the federal level by the California-based Clarkson Law Firm, the same company that brought a similar case against ChatGPT’s OpenAI last month. Google is being sued together with its parent company Alphabet and its AI subsidiary, DeepMind.

OTTAWA—Google has followed fellow tech giant Meta in announcing it will block Canadian news content from its search engine in Canada after days of negotiations with the Liberal government hit an impasse over its recently passed online news bill.

“We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products,” a blog post from Kent Walker, the company’s president of global affairs, read Thursday.

‘I’m heartbroken.’ Google Canada employees start getting layoff notices

A week after announcing 12,000 job cuts globally, Google parent company Alphabet begins notifying Canadian workers of layoffs, many in the Kitchener-Waterloo tech corridor

If you search for the words ‘Tom Slater Tyre Nichols’ on Google right now, the first thing you will see is the following message: ‘It looks like the results below are changing quickly. If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for reliable sources to publish information.’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and several states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition.

The government alleges that Google’s plan to assert dominance has been to “neutralize or eliminate” rivals through acquisitions and to force advertisers to use its products by making it difficult to use competitors’ products.

Google is burying the campaign websites of its fiercest critics on Capitol Hill.

Shortly after MRC Free Speech America released its study showing that Google suppressed Senate Republicans’ campaign websites in its search results, it now appears that Google is hitting members of both the House and Senate who have been critical of Google’s tactics. This is happening just as the country is gearing up to vote during the midterm elections on Nov. 8.

According to a series of internal communications discovered in court, Google employees joked about Chrome’s “Incognito mode” and criticized the company for failing to meet users’ expectations of privacy.

Google is currently the target of a class action lawsuit in California over its misleading claims of privacy.