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Landmark Lawsuit Slaps Legacy Media With Antitrust, First Amendment Claims for Censoring COVID-Related Content

A lawsuit filed January 10th by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and multiple other plaintiffs, alleges the Trusted News Initiative, a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, partnered with Big Tech firms to collectively censor online news.
“By censoring independent voices, what they’re doing is economic suppression. Antitrust is against trusts, it’s against monopolies, and what the TNI has done is essentially create a global media monopoly in the English language.”
–Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel
In a live interview January 10th on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), announced that he and several other plaintiffs filed a groundbreaking novel lawsuit making antitrust and constitutional claims against legacy media outlets.
The lawsuit targets the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, including the BBC, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and The Washington Post — all of which are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

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A bandit cab with a generic "Taxi" roof sign travels on the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto. Photo: Jafar Mirsalari
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Metro Taxi worked “co-operatively and collaboratively” with Ottawa to shut down Bandit cabs, court heard before sound was lost

This unmarked “Bandit Cab” using a temporary, no-name roof light was photographed in Toronto in 2022. Technically, Uber and other rideshares were operating as Bandit cabs before municipalities wrote new by-laws and regulations to legalize them. Photo: Jafar Mirsalari January

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Wall Street Journal breaks taboo on COVID coverage

The venerable Wall Street Journal has published numerous articles challenging the COVID orthadoxy in recent days.

“The Flaherty emails demonstrate that the federal government unlawfully coerced the companies in an effort to ensure that Americans would be exposed only to state-approved information about Covid-19. As a result of that unconstitutional state action, Americans were given the false impression of a scientific ‘consensus’ on critically important issues around Covid-19. A reckoning for the government’s unlawful, deceptive and dangerous conduct is under way in court,” reporters Jenin Younes and Aaron Kheriaty write in a January 8th news article titled “The White House Covid Censorship Machine.”

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Ottawa court case on failure to accommodate language and diversity faces setback due to failure to accommodate language and diversity

The Taxi industry class action suit against the City of Ottawa proceeded on January 5th with Metro Taxi co-owner Marc Andre Way on the witness stand for the entire day.

Attorney Marion Sandilands of Conway Litigation opened proceedings with a complaint to Superior Court Justice Marc Smith that insufficient French translators were available on January 4th. Observers in the court said the translation quality was “dreadful.” This was possibly at least in part because the length of the testimony would have required additional translators to rotate throughout the day so others could take needed breaks. These additional translators were not available on January 4th.

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