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News Outlets: DOJ Arguments Don't Back Misinformation Antitrust Suit

The federal government's statement of interest in litigation charging various news outlets with violating antitrust law (see 2507110039) doesn't address all the ways the plaintiff -- the nonprofit Children's Health Defense -- fails to state a claim, the defendant news…

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outlets said. In a response Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-02735), the Washington Post Co., Associated Press, Reuters and BBC said the DOJ-submitted statement expressly lacks a position on the facts alleged in the complaint or the news outlets' pending motion to dismiss, so it's not relevant to the motion to dismiss and doesn't save the plaintiff's claim. The suit alleges that the news outlets' collaboration with tech giants, supposedly about combating online misinformation, actually involved censoring and excluding competing online news publishers from online platforms.