Amid tweets from President Trump alleging bias against him and against conservatives more generally, the Department of Justice began looking into Facebook, Google, and other tech giants that may be “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas.”  The assertion came at the end of a Senate hearing on September 5, where Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg […]

Just weeks before sexual assault allegations surfaced against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the #MeToo movement made an unprecedented inroad into the corporate sphere. Early last month, media titan and CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves resigned amidst allegations of sexual misconduct. Moonves’ resignation was the movement’s first reckoning against the CEO of a Fortune 500 […]

If you are one of Gmail’s 1.4 billion users, Google and third-party developers may be reading your emails. Google admits that “non-Google” apps can access your email; however, the third-party developers must pass Google’s review process. The review process includes two key requirements. First, these apps must be transparent about who they are and what […]

As the partisan divide in the country deepens, the possibility of political content bias in social media and search platforms is increasingly becoming a concern. Most recently, Google is combating allegations of political bias in its search algorithms. Since an estimated 90 percent of web searches occur on its platform, Google plays a significant role […]

Just months after clips of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal faded from the forefront of the internet, Facebook is again facing major scrutiny in what has been labeled the company’s biggest cybersecurity breach to date. On September 28, Facebook announced that the digital login access tokens of 50 […]

The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a complaint against Facebook, claiming that many of the employment advertisements displayed on the popular social media website were discriminatory. Specifically, the advertisements centered on Facebook’s strategic targeting of individuals that identified as male and implicitly discriminating against women and those that are non-binary. The United States has […]

California is facing lawsuits from the U.S. Department of Justice and the broadband industry over the state’s landmark net neutrality law. Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally. In 2015, the FCC enforced net neutrality protections to regulate broadband providers like public utilities. The Trump-era FCC voted to repeal […]

On September 28th, 2018, the SEC sued Elon Musk for securities fraud and sought to ban him from serving as an officer of any publicly traded company. The SEC’s claims arise from Musk’s August 7th tweet of “funding secured” to take Tesla private. In response to the tweet, Tesla’s shares closed up 11 percent from […]

On September 29, 2018, the SEC imposed a cease-and-desist order against Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., its former CEO Gregory Wasson, and its former CFO Wade Miquelon.  This order comes following the SEC’s investigation over allegations that the company and its directors had misled investors regarding Walgreen’s ability to achieve its forecasted earnings goal. Walgreens, Wasson, […]

In January 2017, the Trump administration shocked the world when it issued an executive order banning entry for 90 days by nationals of Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq and Yemen. The same order also indefinitely halted the intake of Syrian refugees. In June 2018, the shock wave continued when the Supreme Court upheld the travel […]