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"Ofcom will not hesitate to impose fines on social media firms who fail to deal with harmful content, its new boss has said.

The watchdog would also consider temporarily suspending platforms in extreme cases of harm.

Chief executive Dame Melanie Dawe

"A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to apply structural antitrust remedies to cut big (ad)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance business models down to size has been revived after Germany’s federal court overturned an earlier ruling that had

"The Justice Department plans to announce a proposed rollback of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act as early as today, according to The Wall Street Journal. If adopted by Congress, the legislation would reportedly push internet compan

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"TikTok is the latest platform to sign up the European Union’s Code of Practice on disinformation, agreeing to a set of voluntary steps aimed at combating the spread of damaging fakes and falsehoods online.

The short video sharing platform, which is

"Facebook has rejected a proposal to share advertising revenue with news organisations, saying there would “not be significant” impacts on its business if it stopped sharing news altogether.

On Monday, the social media giant issued its response to th

IAB Europe in partnership with IAB France are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative ‘The Post Third-Party Cookie Taskforce’. This follows on from IAB Europe’s recent release of ‘The Post Third-Party Cookie Era Guide, to prepare bra

"As Facebook continues to shrink from responsibilities that would see the company moderating political speech, Joe Biden has apparently had enough.

The presumptive Democratic nominee launched a campaign of sorts against Facebook leadership Thursday,

According to market signals received by the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), television broadcasters provide their services to larger television distributors at lower fees than to smaller distributors. As a result, smaller distributors incur hi

"Facebook, Google and Twitter will have to provide monthly updates on how they're tackling misinformation connected to COVID-19 under plans to be unveiled in the coming days by the European Commission, according to four officials and outside experts

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the Digital Services Act, a landmark package announced by President von der Leyen in her political guidelines and in the Commission's Communication “Shaping Europe's Digital Future” of 19

The European Commission published on the 2nd JUne 2020 an inception impact assessment as well as an open public consultation inviting comments on exploring the need for a possible new competition tool that would allow addressing structural competitio

Cuts to Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps are "bad news for young people and "send a terrible message to the cultural and creative and media sectors".

Reacting to the revised proposal for the 2021-2027 budget for the Erasmus+, C

"Once again, Donald Trump has doubled down. Following the addition of a fact-checking warning label added to his tweet about mail-in ballots, Trump took to the platform yet again to denounce it. In what may be his strongest words to date against a se

'In the approach to the launch of Facebook’s Libra payments ecosystem, a key subsidiary has been given a new name and a new look.
According to an announcement on Tuesday, Libra’s wallet provider Calibra has now been rebranded to Novi – a portmanteau

'The lead data regulator for much of big tech in Europe is moving inexorably towards issuing its first major cross-border GDPR decision — saying today it’s submitted a draft decision related to Twitter’s business to its fellow EU watchdogs for review

'A former Apple contractor called on EU privacy watchdogs Wednesday to investigate the firm's "past and present" use of Siri recordings nine months after reports emerged of the firm listening in without users' knowledge.
“I request that you, as a da

You don’t go to Facebook because of the design of its user interface, its reputation or the quality of its service. You go there, because all your friends are there. Economists call this “network effects”.

 Get these network effects right and you wil

"TikTok says its U.S. operation doesn’t censor political content or take instructions from its parent company, the Chinese tech giant ByteDance. Company leaders extol the app as a platform free of the contentious content that has come to characterize

'France adopted a law against online hate speech Wednesday that will target Silicon Valley giants amid controversy surrounding the lawmaker in charge of the bill.
After months of debate, the lower house of Parliament adopted the controversial legisla