'Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to its content moderators whose job has them viewing graphic and disturbing posts and videos on its platforms.
In a 2018 lawsuit, third-party contractors for the company said that Facebook failed to properly pr
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Euractiv published an open letter to EU leaders from more than 40 MEPs calls for immediate actions to support Europe’s news media sector as it faces up to the sudden loss of advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
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Ofcom has today announced that Jonathan Oxley, Group Director for Competition and Board member, has decided to step down.
Jonathan joined Ofcom in November 2014 and has overseen Ofcom’s important work to improve competition in the UK communications s
'The European Commission is to contract a study on the gatekeeping, or market-dominating, power of digital platforms in a bid to gather evidence which could feed into the upcoming Digital Services Act, documents seen by EURACTIV reveal.
A recent call
'VAT on digital publications will be scrapped today (Friday 1st May) after Chancellor fast-tracked the plan, saying it would help readers and publishers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rishi Sunak first announced the policy in his March Budget, anno
'The European Commission is mulling over plans to introduce ‘new and innovative financial solutions’ to support the sustainability of the EU’s media sector amid the current health crisis.
Speaking in front of MEPs in the Parliament’s Culture Committe
The European Commission will not look into the possibility of revising the bloc’s competition rules until at least 2021, despite recent pressure from a group of EU member states.
The executive’s industrial strategy, published on 10 March, aims to bol
'No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to
'A leading news organisation is calling for a digital “kitemarking” system online to distinguish between quality journalism and fake content – with internet companies facing penalties if they publish inaccurate information.
ITN, the maker of news for
'We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) at a gathering of foreign policy and security experts in Munich, Germany, in mid- February,
'The coronavirus pandemic is likely to lead to an increase in cartels and global cartel enforcement, a former enforcer at the US Department of Justice has said.
Morrison & Foerster partner Lisa Phelan said today that the global crisis could put press
'The government has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between media companies and digital platforms such as Facebook and Google - and the question of
'While Covid-19 takes all the headlines, deals are made and laws are passed, with hardly anyone noticing. Many will change our lives for years or forever. UnderCovid keeps track of these stories.'
What happens to public service media in 2020?
A petition to make the BBC better: " ...fully independent of government, representative, diverse and accountable to us, the people."
An unlikely regulatory body sits firmly on the front line of data protection and privacy, and it wields a very "big stick" over Silicon Valley and beyond.
The French competition authority said Apple and two wholesalers agreed not to compete on prices and distribution, “thereby sterilizing the wholesale market for Apple products.”
The letter of 4 February by France, Germany, Italy and Poland’s ministers to Executive Vice President Vestager makes several suggestions on how to move forward on competition policy.
Suggestions that deserve public debate.
By Martin Peitz, Professor of
The Council of the European Union approved the new Regulation on promoting fairness and transparency of online platforms on 14 June 2019. The new Regulation will take effect this summer, without the need for any further implementation by EU Member St
The ad industry is facing an increasingly complicated media world within which audiences use multiple devices to consume content selected from a broad variety of choices. People consume at times and in places that meet their needs, not the content pr
The Commission has proposed today an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union:…
