Facebook’s subversion of the US election matters in the UK because it is our largest and most profitable online publisher
It now looks like Russian operatives made extensive use of Facebook to subvert the US presidential election. The US giant…
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Internet growth fuels record £10.8bn UK ad spend in first six months of 2017 – but news brands and magazines lose out
UK advertising spending grew to a record £10.8bn in the first six months of this year – but news brands…
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Whittingdale: Google and Facebook should fund local democracy reporters and support local media
A former Cabinet Minister has slammed Google and Facebook for “killing local newspapers” – and says they must do more…
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Facebook pilot scheme removing news stories from main feed looks like shot across bows of grumbling news publishers
Facebook’s experiment at clearing everything but content from friends and sponsored posts from its main news feed will alarm publishers.…
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Small businesses in communities now spend more with Facebook than local press, Journalism Summit told
Small and medium size businesses are now spending more with Facebook than they are with local newspapers, according to the…
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Digital Summit: News industry has been ‘too slow to move from burning platforms’, claims agency boss
The news industry has been “too slow to move away from the burning platforms on which they were sitting” as…
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Press Gazette can exclusively reveal that influential journalists were wined and dined at expensive restaurants in London this week separately…
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Duopoly: Government proposes new tax on internet giants to curb spread of porn and cyber bullying
The Government has proposed a new tax on tech giants like Google and Facebook to fund measures to crackdown on…
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