The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures”
What You Need to Know for Your Next Trip Mohd Haider / Benzinga : Elon Musk Reacts To US Travel Ban On Former EU Commissioner: ‘...Gets His Dessert’ Sky News : EU warns of possible action after US bar...
Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work
This by the former research director of the #Stanford Internet Observatory. It was one of the leading #US institutions studying #online disinformation, but it's been shut down recently due to lawsuit...
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game Developer : Meta's n...
Inside Republican infighting over the proposed Big Tech antitrust bills, as some co-sponsor bills while others argue the bills don't address alleged bias
Apple, Google, FB & Amazon — see the very real possibility that their power can finally be constrained. They're waging an all-out lobbyist effort to stop it. Right now, the 2 key obstacles are McCarth...
Dublin-based food ordering service Flipdish raises €40M round from Tiger Global Management
Pre-Covid, says McCarthy, lots of restaurants relied on platforms like Deliveroo for a small portion of orders, but when everything moved online, “they realised they weren't making a whole load …
Spotify reports 108M paying subscribers in Q2, up 31% YoY, revenue of €1.67B, up 31% YoY, and an operating loss of €3M
Spotify Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times : Spotify misses a beat as subscriber numbers disappoint Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Spotify hits 108M paying users and 232M overall, but its average revenue pe...
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered
’ Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph : ‘Libra Is so Screwed’ — Should Have Used Bitcoin, Says Samson Mow Martin Young / Bitcoinist.com : Congress to Hold Second Hearing on Libra and Crypto Marko Vidrih...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...