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Technology companies join lawsuit over government access to social media records

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – major technology companies and civil liberty groups have joined Facebook in a closed courtroom battle over sceret government access to social media records.

The Washington Post says Facebook is fighting a court order that prohibits it from letting user known when law enforcement investigators ask to search their political communications.

Facebook says it hurts First Amendment rights.

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