1. E. Jean Carroll Defamation and Federal Tort Claims Act Litigation 2. Summer Zervos Defamation Suit 3. Mary Trump Fraud Litigation 4. Panama Hotel Fraud and Tax Litigation 5. Doe v. The Trump Corporation Class Action justsecurity.org/75032/litigati…
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6. DC Civil Suit over Misuse of 2017 Inauguration Funds 7. Bennie Thompson Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Capitol Attack 8. Eric Swalwell Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Riots justsecurity.org/75032/litigati…
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9. NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Voting Rights Case for Post-Election Actions 10. New York Attorney General’s Civil Investigations 11. Criminal Investigations into Trump’s Finances justsecurity.org/75032/litigati…
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12. DC AG Incitement Criminal Investigation 13. Fulton County, Georgia Criminal Election Influence Investigation justsecurity.org/75032/litigati…
5/ Pair this with major decisions the Biden administration will have to take on what to pursue:
Rep. Zoe Lofgren publishes analysis of social media posts from 102 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election techpolicy.press/rep-zoe-lofgre…
Said @RepZoeLofgren in the foreward to the nearly 2,000 page report: "“Like former President Trump, any elected Member of Congress who aided and abetted the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government. "
"They would have betrayed their oath of office and would be implicated in the same constitutional provision cited in the Article of Impeachment."
1/ This is a thread about @SusanWojcicki's statements today at the @AtlanticCouncil on @YouTube's suspension of Donald Trump. First, Wojcicki says the rules are the same for everybody.
2/ Wojcicki says Trump videos posted after January 6th violated the policy on incitement, and says the elevated violence risk still remains. But here she confirms "we will lift the suspension of the channel when we determine that the risk of violence has decreased."
3/ Wojcicki says Trump has 1 strike against him. @FredKempe says Jan 6th "was a pretty big strike." Wojcicki says YT is looking at government warnings, violent rhetoric the YouTube "intelligence desk" is seeing; hard to say when the suspension would lift based on what they see.
.@profcarroll: [Social media platforms] cannot deny that they are in the business of assembling the kind of data flows that investigations into January 6th require.”
.@informor: It would be useful to look at “user reports and flagging of groups, pages accounts and channels associated with January 6th, and how these reports were handled by the platforms."
The POST Act, passed during the height of the George Floyd protests last summer, requires NYPD to disclose its complement of surveillance tech.
Last month, NYPD released the first tranche of three dozen briefs. We look at what they say- and don't say. techpolicy.press/disclosures-of…
For instance, consider the disclosure for "internet attribution management infrastructure", a suite of tools that permits NYPD to engage on social media and in message apps covertly.
1/ Democracies around the world are all mired in one crisis or another. Distortions in information ecosystems is one reason why. Big ideas for ways to funnel billions of dollars back into journalism are rare- it’s time to take a gamble on more than one. technologyreview.com/2021/02/20/101…
2/ Such an idea rose to the world’s attention this week: an Australian law that would compel search and social media platforms to pay news organizations through an arbitration mechanism, an approach now being considered by lawmakers in other governments. technologyreview.com/2021/02/20/101…
3/ But in view of the objections to this approach, what other options exist? If new subscription models are not enough to sustain the media industry, what else can be done to push billions of dollars back into journalism?technologyreview.com/2021/02/20/101…
WaPo: "Shortly after the riot, Jones said on Infowars that he was invited by the White House on about Jan. 3 to “lead the march” to the Capitol, and that he paid nearly $500,000, mostly donated, to help organize the event on the Ellipse."