More regulatory curbs on Facebook and Google with European Digital Services and Market Acts
Google and Facebook could have to reveal how much advertising cash is passed onto publishers under Europe’s clampdown on the…
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Online Safety Bill: Social media companies face big fines for unsafe content, but news media exempt
Ofcom will be given the power to fine social media companies millions of pounds if they fail to combat misinformation…
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Facebook News: US publishers happy with cash for content – but say project is a ‘PR move’
From January 2021, after years of pressure from publishers and politicians, Facebook will begin paying UK news outlets to use…
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Trusted News Initiative: Publishers and tech giants join forces against Covid-19 vaccine disinformation
A group of publishers and tech giants will co-ordinate efforts to remove potentially dangerous Covid-19 vaccine disinformation as the UK…
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Why robot? Sharp traffic fall for MSN following move to AI-driven editing
Comscore data shows that Yahoo/Huffpost overtook MSN as the most popular news aggregator in the UK after the latter replaced…
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How Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is taking on Google and Facebook with ‘insanely unique’ ad technology for publishers
Since the global financial crisis, news publishers – many hit by crippling revenue declines – have made several failed attempts…
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Facebook to pay UK publishers for content with launch of Facebook News tab from Jan 2021
Facebook has announced plans to share some of the estimated £5bn a year it makes from advertising in the UK…
By Government to create competition regime tackling ‘fundamental imbalance of power’ between platforms and publishers
A new competition regime designed to rein in the dominance and power of platforms such as Google and Facebook has…
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