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Archives for September 2024

Why did Caroline Ellison do it?Why did Caroline Ellison do it?
Elizabeth Lopatto
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Amazon tricks customers into buying Fire TVs with “fake” discounts, lawsuit alleges.

A proposed class action lawsuit filed in Washington state claims Amazon misleads customers about Fire TV prices during “limited-time” deals:

Far from being on sale, or being sold at a discount off of List Prices, the Fire TVs were always available for sale during the class period. As a result, everything about Defendants’ price and purported discount advertising is false and misleading.

This echoes a similar lawsuit filed against Amazon in 2021.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
“Do you have a First Amendment interest in who owns TikTok?”

TikTok’s lawyer is off the stage, and Judge Noemi Rao is questioning Jeffrey Fisher, who represents a lawsuit from users of TikTok. Fisher’s argument so far centers on the claim that American media creators have a right to work with publishers of their choosing. Rao is questioning how far that right should stretch — emphasizing the judges’ focus on TikTok’s Chinese ownership.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
The TikTok ban hearing is streaming on YouTube.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has just started its morning session, where TikTok and the US Government will be fighting over the divest-or-ban law passed earlier this year. There’s one brief argument in another case before it starts.

TikTok is about to get its day in courtTikTok is about to get its day in court
Gaby Del Valle and Lauren Feiner
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
The king of wishful thinking files an appeal on his fraud conviction.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argue that Judge Lewis Kaplan unfairly limited the evidence that was allowed in court, including that Bankman-Fried had relied on lawyers in making his decisions. Also stealing all that money wasn’t really that bad because his victims were eventually repaid.

One of California’s most influential unions weighs in on AI safety bill

Newsom has until September 30th to decide SB 1047’s fate, and both sides are lobbying hard.

Garrison Lovely