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X-WR-CALNAME:Attorney General Todd Rokita launches investigations into five
  Big Tech companies over censoring conservative content
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DESCRIPTION:Inquiry targets Amazon\, Apple\, Facebook\, Google\, and Twitte
 r\n\nAttorney General Todd Rokita announced today that he is investigating
  whether five Big Tech companies have potentially harmed Indiana consumers
  through business practices that are abusive\, deceptive and/or unfair.\n\
 nIn particular\, Attorney General Rokita is probing methods by which the c
 ompanies have limited consumers’ access to certain content — often del
 eting or obscuring posted material reflecting a politically conservative p
 oint of view. Such manipulation prevents consumers from making informed ch
 oices\, Attorney General Rokita said.\n\n“In a free society\, few assets
  are more important to consumers than access to information and the opport
 unity to express political viewpoints in meaningful forums\,” Attorney G
 eneral Rokita said. “It is potentially harmful and unfair for these comp
 anies to manipulate content in ways they do not publicly discuss or that c
 onsumers do not fully understand.”\n\nIn addition to Amazon\, Apple\, Fa
 cebook\, Google\, and Twitter\, Attorney General Rokita is also investigat
 ing alleged actions taken by attorney Vanita Gupta to encourage the compan
 ies to censor conservative viewpoints.\n\nGupta\, who is President Joe Bid
 en’s nominee to be associate U.S. attorney general\, has allegedly met w
 ith Facebook and Twitter executives to urge “more rigorous rules and enf
 orcement\,” to use her own words as quoted in Time. Gupta\, according to
  the Time article\, stressed that it was important for social media platfo
 rms to be “tagging things and taking them down.”
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SUMMARY:Attorney General Todd Rokita launches investigations into five Big 
 Tech companies over censoring conservative content
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 tions_into_five_big_tech_companies_over_censoring_conservative_content
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