UK competition watchdog calls for action as Facebook and Google take 80% of £14bn annual digital ad spend
The UK’s competition watchdog is calling on the Government to create new powers to regulate the digital advertising market, saying…
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Duopoly concerns: News UK’s David Dinsmore tells Parliament ‘publishers are from Mars and platforms are from Venus’
Top executives at News UK and DMG Media have bemoaned the fact Google and Facebook hold “all the power” in…
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House of Lords committee: Google and Facebook must face UK regulation – and sanctions – to combat ‘pandemic of misinformation’
A House of Lords committee is demanding the UK Government introduce new legislation allowing regulators to sanction tech giants and…
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Google to pay ‘high-quality’ publishers for journalism in major shift for the media giant
Google says it will start paying selected publishers for “high-quality content” for the first time when it launches a new…
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Google forecast to see first drop in US advertising revenue in 2020 as tech platforms take two thirds of market
Google’s US advertising revenues are expected to fall this year as a result of coronavirus and the economic downturn –…
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US news publishers have sent a report to regulators alleging that Google has used its online market dominance to “strong-arm”…
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Damian Collins MP: Social media firms must take responsibility for harmful Covid-19 disinformation
We are living through the first major public health emergency in the age of social media disinformation. Where the disinformation…
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Facebook Australia’s claim it doesn’t need news content is a ‘bluff that will fail’, says US publishing industry leader
Facebook’s claim that it does not need news content to succeed has been called out as a “bluff” by the…
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