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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.
The social media giant’s news service
"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
"Facebook France has accepted paying more than 100 million euros in taxes, including a penalty, relating to its accounting years before 2018, French financial magazine Capital reported on its website.
Facebook was not immediately available for commen
"An effort by TikTok users to troll President Trump’s official campaign app with thousands of one-star reviews appears to have had an impact — if not the impact the pranksters had wanted. In July, Bloomberg reported TikTok activists were flocking to
"On July 23, 2020, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) released a memorandum announcing the Print Media Advertising Policy 2020. The policy pertains to the Bureau of Outreach and Communication (BOC), which is the arbiter for all paid o
Crowdcube launched a new flagship secondary product, the Direct Community Offer (DCO). "The DCO gives later-stage businesses a way of offering early investors a return on their investment while simultaneously giving new investors a chance to buy a st
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:…