US court dismisses anti-conservative bias suit against Twitter, FB, Google

At a time when US President Donald Trump accuses social media firms of being biased against conservatives, a federal appeals court in the US rejected a lawsuit that alleged that Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and Google conspired to silence conservative voices.

The suit, filed in 2018 by nonprofit Freedom Watch and right-wing YouTube personality Laura Loomer, accused the four tech companies of stifling First Amendment rights.

In a ruling on Wednesday, the US appeals court in Washington, DC dismissed the lawsuit and said that the First Amendment rights regulate the government, not the private sector, TechCrunch reported. District Judge Trevor McFadden noted that the complainants could not prove that the companies were “state actors”.