Donald Trump’s lawyer says a lawsuit against Twitter over banning his account is ongoing and Trump does not plan to withdraw the appeal, complicating his return (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

Media Matters for America:
On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and popular QAnon fans like Patrick Byrne  —  Among the reinstated accounts are far-right media and other figures, election and vaccine misinformers, and a white nationalist

Kathryn Tewson / Techdirt:
Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more  —  Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread.  —  I’ve been going pretty hard on DoNotPay …

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Arizona’s AG: Google will pay $85M to resolve the state’s consumer privacy lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously collects users’ location data for targeted ads  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google will pay $85 million to resolve a consumer privacy suit by Arizona claiming the technology giant …

Washington Post:
A profile of Alex Spiro, a celebrity lawyer and central figure in Elon Musk’s bid to overhaul Twitter, who has done much of the legal heavy lifting so far  —  Alex Spiro went from representing Jay-Z to participating in one of the biggest technology company overhauls in years.

Herb Scribner / Axios:
Musk is running a Twitter poll on reinstating Donald Trump, after saying in October that Twitter will form a “content moderation council” to make such decisions  —  Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on his own Twitter feed Friday night asking whether or not to reinstate former President Trump to the social media platform.

Reuters:
Twitter reinstates Trump’s account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes to reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken”  —  Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …