EU regulators approve Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition after Microsoft made concessions to keep rivals' access to Call of Duty and other games
but the saga is ‘unlikely to end soon’ Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : EU approves Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar Activision Blizzard acquisition despite UK and US opposition Arjun Kharpal / CNBC...
The EU and US reach a preliminary deal to store data about Europeans on US soil, after the EU declared the previous pact illegal in 2020
leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/... @dcms : We welcome the announcement of an agreement in principle on adequacy between the EU and the US Global events show that it is more i...
Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number
RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politico.eu/... Derek Powa...
Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond
and Big Tech's barely doing a damn thing Washington Post : Social networks face pressure to ban Russian state media Stratechery : Russia and the Four Internets, Shifts and Social Media, Gelsinger Inte...
Russia's leading internet providers have restricted access to Twitter and Facebook
Twitter, YouTube and and Facebook respond and Russia sites attacked Michael L Hicks / Android Central : Ukraine has helped the tech industry, but Big Tech hasn't helped Ukraine Tweets: @rmac18 : From ...
Draft EU Commission proposals, set to be unveiled on Nov. 23, would compel Google and Facebook to share data on how political groups target ads or face fines
Social media companies could face hefty fines if they don't publish detailed information on political ad buyers, according to an EU internal document. Tweets: @markscott82 and @clothildegouj See also ...
Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill
but what was lost along the way? Micky : Facebook versus Australia: the government hands Facebook a free pass Max Willens / Digiday : Cheat sheet: Facebook brings news back to platform in Australia - ...
Inside Big Tech's EU lobbying efforts ahead of new rules: Google had the most meetings, CEOs led lobbying, and focus shifted from hate speech to antitrust rules
Big Tech pivoted away from content moderation rules to #antitrust proposals in the summer b/c Digital Markets Act represented a greater near-term threat Laura Kayali / @laukaya : Take-aways from 2 yea...
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified
bringing in Zuckerberg, Pichai, & Dorsey to defend their content moderation under threat of gutting Section 230, days before the election—feels like a last-ditch effort to spook them out of enforcing ...
Facebook says it will limit message forwarding on Messenger to five people or groups at a time to tackle the spread of misinformation
and they need to do more than make small, performative tweaks. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Reynolds / @tomhreynolds : @MikeIsaac Here is one of the new labels we are rolling out, per our announcem...