Hi, this is Grace from Pennsylvania. I have three little kids and my husband works about 100

hours a week as a surgical resident, and I'm waiting for my mom to arrive our first visitors

in over six months. This podcast was recorded at 2.06 pm on Thursday, July 8th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear it. For example, I will have helped with my kids

and company while my husband works overnight for the first time in 189 days. Yes, I counted.

Oh my gosh. I just feel the relief for her. Thank God. I hope she gets a good night's sleep.

Yes, or just like coffee alone. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover

the White House. And I'm Deer Dervolsh. I cover Congress. So this is an awkward line that I never

really imagined having to say on this podcast, but here goes. Facebook, Google and Amazon are

among NPR's financial supporters, which might be a clue that today we are talking about big tech.

And NPR Shannon Bond is joining the podcast once again. Hello, Shannon. Hello, hello. Hello,

so let us start with the most recent thing, which is that former President Trump has filed what he

hopes will become class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, which is owned by Google.

So let's start with his complaint. What is it? Well, you might remember that all three of those

platforms kicked Trump off after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. At the time,

they said they were worried that he was going to contribute to the risk of violence. And so what

Trump's lawsuits alleged is that these banning is a form of censorship. He's saying the tech

giants are censoring him, not just him, other conservatives too, that's where the class action part

comes in. And that's a long-running complaint we've heard from the right. There's little evidence

for it. The company is denying it, but it is a talking point they return to again and again.

So in these complaints, Trump is asking for two things. He wants the court to order the companies

to give him and the other plaintiffs their accounts back. And then second, there's this federal

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