Facebook apologised to Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta after it mistakenly flagged as false his congratulatory message to the Ugandan president-elect Yoweri Museveni. Facebook admitted that the... (See more)
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During an Australian Senate hearing, Google threatened to make its searching services unavailable in the country if the News Bargaining Code is enforced. The Code requires companies to pay for... (See more)
Twitter has flagged as false a tweet posted by the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that affirmed Malaria drugs are effective to prevent hospitalisations and reduce the mortality rate of patients... (See more)
The Facebook Oversight Board accepted a case referral from Facebook to examine their decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook... (See more)
A startup company, Emortal, is reported to launch the digital legacy preserving platform in the UK and USA in late this year. The project has received backing from the internet evangelist Vint Cerf... (See more)
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the EU Commission for allowing the Italian competition authority to pursue an independent case against Amazon's practices of selecting sellers. The company argues... (See more)
A new survey by the law firm McCann FitzGerald and international audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars documents the new data protection risks for companies linked to the sudden shift to large-scale... (See more)
The European Commission has fined Valve and five other PC game platforms a total of € 7.8 million over their geo-blocking practices. These game platforms restricted sales of video games based on the... (See more)
Facebook has required the Australian government to postpone the implementation of the news bargaining code in order to give online platforms time to make deals with news outlets to pay for content... (See more)
The video platform Rumble, based in Toronto, filed a lawsuit against Google over using its market power to improperly hamper competitors. Rumble alleged in the lawsuit that Google unfairly favours... (See more)
According to Euractiv, dating apps and videoconferencing tools could come under the scope of new EU efforts to monitor online communications to stamp out child sexual abuse material. Ongoing... (See more)
L’Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG), which represents the interests of around 300 political and general information press titles in France, announced signing an agreement with... (See more)