“Freedom Watch’s complaint cites YouTube’s decision to ban conservative pundit Alex Jones’s InfoWars channel as one example of how social media is suppressing conservative content. Apple and Facebook took similar actions against InfoWars with all three companies citing their user policies in doing so. Twitter temporarily banned Jones’s account.
Those companies couldn’t have avoided noticing what the others were doing when they made their decisions. It’s less clear that they collaborated among themselves and acted as a group.
Antitrust lawyers say that’s crucial to making a case. New York University antitrust law professor Eleanor Fox pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 decision Bell Atlantic Corp. v. William Twombly, which said evidence of parallel conduct, with no facts to show collaboration, isn’t enough to state a viable antitrust case.”