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The Telecom Digest for Wed, 10 Feb 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 41 : "text" format

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Fox Files Motion to Dismiss Smartmatic's $2.7 Billion Defamation Suit
NLRB issues decision in favor of CWA
How the United States Lost to Hackers
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20210209051859.E8A71755@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 05:18:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Fox Files Motion to Dismiss Smartmatic's $2.7 Billion Defamation Suit In a court filing, Rupert Murdoch's media company says it had the right to broadcast the debunked claims of election fraud promoted by President Donald Trump's legal team on Fox News and Fox Business. By Michael M. Grynbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit brought against it last week by the election technology company Smartmatic, which has accused Mr. Murdoch's cable networks and three Fox anchors of spreading falsehoods that the company tried to rig the presidential race against Donald J. Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/business/media/fox-smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210207204554.D5F7873C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:45:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: NLRB issues decision in favor of CWA Bargaining unit: AT&T Mobility IHX This week, Region 7 of the NLRB issued a decision in CWA's favor, slapping down an attempt by AT&T to use a stall tactic to delay an election for a group of AT&T Mobility IHX workers at a facility in Southfield, Mich. AT&T had waged a court battle over the scope of the bargaining unit. However, according to this decision, the petitioned-for unit of AT&T Mobility IHX employees may now proceed to an election. While the employees' fight is not yet over, this decision is a major step forward for them and for CWA. https://cwa-union.org/news/organizing-update-114 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <EC26A121-57FC-4580-A6DD-2A8BDAEDBFA6@roscom.com> Date: 7 Feb 2021 02:03:45 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: How the United States Lost to Hackers How the United States Lost to Hackers America's biggest vulnerability in cyber-warfare is hubris. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-usa.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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