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WASHINGTON — "The Justice Department accused Google of illegally protecting its monopoly over search and search advertising in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the government’s most significant legal challenge to a tech company’s market power in a generat

The last focus session of the German EU Presidency related to Media in the Digital Society, titled "How can AI contribute to ensuring quality journalism?" took place on 1 October 2020. The session was organised in cooperation with the Deutsche Well

We are seeing a reshaping of what it means to have a career in journalism. The rise of the ‘passion economy‘, increasing freelancing, more niche publications and more ‘fluid’ or precarious employment are all creating new pathways to working in news m

Gaming will soon be more than just computerised competition. It will be a channel containing all other media channels within its belly. The next generation of consumers is heading to immersive spaces to chat socially, watch TV together, learn, and ev

Kari Paul writes "Facebook has announced significant changes to its advertising and misinformation policies, saying it will stop running political ads in the United States after polls close on 3 November for an undetermined period of time.

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"Big tech has responded to the mammoth antitrust report put out by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee yesterday with blanket denials there’s any monopolistic behaviour or competitive imbalances to see here.

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Foo Yun Chee reported from BRUSSELS (Reuters) - "France, among Europe's most lavish patrons of culture, cinema and literature, has criticised the European Commission over how it plans to apply landmark copyright rules that pit YouTube and Instagram a

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My inbox over the last few days has been filling up with emails asking for the Thinkbox view on a recent report from Samsung Ads, which reveals some interesting analysis of their 3.7m TV sets that they’re able to collect viewing data across.

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"EU court in July ruled there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies.

Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe if the Irish data protection commissioner enforces a ban on sharing data with the US, after a

"The EU is looking to give itself sweeping new powers to crack down on US tech giants, EU commissioner Thierry Breton told the FT in an interview Sunday.
The regulatory blueprint includes massive penalties to force tech companies to sell off their Eu

"Oracle has been chosen as ByteDance’s “trusted technology partner” for TikTok in the U.S., the technology company told Adweek today, though neither Oracle nor TikTok clarified what that relationship would look like.

TikTok confirmed that it has subm

"Estonia-based Sentinel, which is developing a detection platform for identifying synthesized media (aka deepfakes), has closed a $1.35 million seed round from some seasoned angle investors — including Jaan Tallinn (Skype), Taavet Hinrikus (Transferw

"Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google  and Facebook  has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each provide publishers with ad-based content recommendation platform

"While many brands have gone silent at this time of the pandemic, the International Advertising Association (IAA) is trying to tell them it is not the time to slow down. But the right time to push their products and services through various media out

"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. Election Day on Nov. 3, in a series of moves that the company billed as its final plan for reducing the risks of mis

"Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it plans to launch its news service in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, India and Brazil in the coming months, after having introduced the feature in the United States last year.

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"TikTok is suing the U.S. government in federal court over the Trump Administration’s decision to ban TikTok in the U.S. market. Reports that TikTok would soon file a legal challenge to the ban were already making the rounds this weekend, ahead of Ti

"Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook
Downloading TikTok and WeChat from the Google or Apple app stores in the U.S. could be blocked by President Trump's executive o