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Social MediaEditor's Pick
Meta and Google Just Lost a Landmark Social Media Addiction Case. A Tech Law Expert Explains the Fallout
by Troy OakesSocial media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect, which means they are addictive, a jury in …
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Business
Mark Zuckerberg’s Empire on Trial: Can the Digital Emperor Survive His Own Game?
by Hermann RohrMark Zuckerberg has spent two decades bending reality to his will. From a Harvard dorm room prank to …
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Technology
Google Loses Online Ad Monopoly Case. But It’s Just One of Many Antitrust Battles Against Big Tech
by Troy OakesTech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a landmark antitrust case. …
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Technology
Meta Is Abandoning Fact-Checking — This Doesn’t Bode Well for the Fight Against Misinformation
by Troy OakesMeta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at …
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Technology
Big Tech Firms Like Meta Forced to Pay for News, Under Albanese Government’s ‘News Bargaining Incentive’ Charge
by Troy OakesBig tech companies like Meta would have to either do deals with news organizations to help fund journalism …
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Technology
News Bargaining Incentive: The Latest Move in the Government’s ‘Four-Dimensional Chess’ Battle With Meta
by Troy OakesThe federal government has revealed a new bargaining chip in the gamble to bring big tech back to …
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Social Media
What is Bluesky? Why Tens of Millions of People Are Heading for a ‘Decentralised’ Social Media Platform
by Troy OakesAfter Elon Musk bought Twitter (now rebranded X) in 2022, disaffected users began to seek alternatives. Alongside Meta’s …
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Technology
Meta Now Allows Military Agencies to Access Its AI Software. It Poses a Moral Dilemma for Everybody Who Uses It
by Troy OakesMeta will make its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to the United States government, the tech giant …
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Technology
Meta Just Closed a Vital Online Research Tool. It’s Bad News For the Fight Against Misinformation
by Troy OakesFor more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track …