Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple ‘censored’ conservative content, $1 billion lawsuit claims

As President Donald Trump goes to war against Silicon Valley technology firms over what he believes is a left-wing bias against conservatives, a right-wing group has launched a lawsuit targeting this region’s tech giants and accusing them of a conspiracy. Freedom Watch, run by infamously litigious far-right former US prosecutor Larry Klayman — who once used conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ video show to call former President Barack Obama “a Muslim through and through” — accused Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple of “suppression and censorship of conservative content.” Freedom Watch is seeking class-action status and $1 billion in damages.  The companies acted in concert with traditional media firms, including CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post, Freedom Watch alleged in the suit filed Aug 29 in US District Court in Washington (DC). Their goal, according to the suit? The tech firms and media companies want to “take down President Donald Trump and his administration with the intent and purpose to have installed leftist government in the nation’s capital and the 50 states,” the suit said.