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Vijaya Gadde.Twitter Elon Musk bought Twitter on Monday and could shift its approach to content moderation. One key architect of those content policies is the attorney Vijaya Gadde. On Monday, Gadde cried during a meeting that discussed the acquisition, three people told Politico. Twitter’s top attorney and a key voice in decisions such as barring President Donald Trump from the platform became emotional and cried in a meeting with employees discussing Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on… Source link

Accusing the CIA of having an “obsession for vengeance” against Julian Assange, a lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder urged a British court on Thursday to conduct an independent investigation into the agency’s aggressive measures targeting his client, including an aborted 2017 plot to abduct him from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London that was detailed in a recent report by Yahoo News. “This is a case of credible evidence of U.S. government plans developed at some length to do serious harm… Source link

A California woman with more than $350,000 in student debt served as her own lawyer in personal bankruptcy and saw 98% of her loans discharged in the latest case in a growing trend. Court filings show that the Education Department (ED) and the Los Angeles-based woman, Mis Loe, agreed on August 30 that Loe would pay $7,200 of her $356,637.82 in outstanding loans (at a fixed monthly rate of $60 for 10 years or until October 1, 2031). Once Loe completes the $7,200 payment by October 2031,… Source link

A 3D printed Android mascot Bugdroid is seen in front of a Google logo in this illustration taken July 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Google challenging record $5 bln EU fine in court case Consumers use Google because it’s the best – Google lawyer EU lawyer says Google stacked the odds in its favour LUXEMBOURG, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Billions of people use Google because it’s the best, not because of deals the company made to stay competitive, Google’s lawyer said on Friday, wrapping up a… Source link

In four minutes, cyber looters pilfered $34,123 worth of virtual currency from a Virginia resident’s Coinbase (COIN) account, the 38-year-old told Yahoo Finance.   The man, Ben, says it’s still missing despite his appeals to Coinbase, the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), lawmakers, and the Better Business Bureau (BBB). In order for Ben to comply with a policy of his… Source link

If the Houston Police Department or Harris County District Attorney move to investigate sexual misconduct civil suits currently pending against Deshaun Watson, the Houston Texans quarterback would be made available to cooperate with authorities, according to Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin. That declaration was made by Hardin on Thursday, after the counsel for the 21 women who have filed the civil suits reversed course earlier in the week and declared he would not be turning information… Source link

HOUSTON — As the 20th and 21st civil suits against Deshaun Watson became public on Wednesday, the attorney representing the Houston Texans quarterback countered with a lengthy release of on-the-record statements from 18 female masseuses who claim they had only positive business interactions with Watson. In terms of strategy, it’s the most significant public response to date from Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, countering the layered, sexually driven narrative that has been put forth in… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law during a hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power” in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS The power of Big Tech to tamp down potential business rivals stretches all the way into the courtroom, a leading antitrust attorney testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust on… Source link

A Massachusetts lawyer who has apparently never heard of the Streisand effect is suing Google for returning results on him when you search for his name. Matthew Sandofsky filed the suit against the tech giant on Monday in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. He’s asking for $1,000 for himself and anyone else affected, which given the ubiquity of Google and the internet is close to every single American adult. His lawsuit, first noticed by Universal Hub, claims that Google violates… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Perhaps the most influential executive at Google is a man who can’t write a line of code. That is Kent Walker, the company’s chief legal officer and head of global affairs, whose role puts him at the center of the search giant’s antitrust challenges. It also gives him the power to lead the defense that will determine whether one of the world’s dominant conglomerates is able to keep growing — or gets… Source link