The White House is getting ready to go after tech platforms and the EU is going after Amazon, while Louisiana’s attorney general wants to break up social media giants; new details revealed about Google’s plans to launch a censored search engine in China; and can tech moguls save legacy media?
Read more
Is the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis responsible for the rise of populism in the US and Europe?; the real Google censorship scandal is its re-entry into China; Europe’s new controversial copyright law could change the Internet; and can Facebook unbreak democracy?
Read more
NewsGuard is a new startup that relies on reporting instead of artificial intelligence to rate the trustworthiness of news sites: “It became obvious to us that the platforms’ fumbling around with artificial intelligence cannot solve the problem.”
Read more
As Trump ramps up his attacks on Google, Sen. Orrin Hatch asks the FTC to revisit its investigation of the company; as Facebook finally takes action on Myanmar, US campaign strategists reportedly gear up to flood the social network with inflammatory ads; and why are doctors and hospital groups organizing to oppose single-payer health care in California?
Read more
America’s white-collar prosecution crisis; Elizabeth Warren has a new bill that aims to separate money from politics; Facebook struggles with the daunting task of moderating 2 billion people; and is Google risking press freedom by re-entering the Chinese market?
Read more
Elizabeth Warren’s new bill seeks to radically alter US corporate governance; America’s top CEOs earned 312 times more than their average workers last year; regulators are after Facebook for discriminatory housing ads; Elon Musk faces no more than a slap on the wrist from the SEC, experts say; and what is “the biggest policy mistake of the last decade”?
Read more
In a wide-ranging interview with ProMarket, media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan explains why Facebook has become “too big too manage” and why he believes the only solution to its bigness is a global political movement aimed at breaking it up.
Read more
The rumors of Facebook’s newfound vulnerability have been greatly exaggerated; Google reportedly employs more contractors than actual employees; Britain has a monopoly problem; and can consumers resist companies’ market power?
Read more
The EU’s record-breaking antitrust fine against Google might be too little, too late; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanks one of his biggest advertisers, President Trump; the FCC likely dooms the Sinclair-Tribune merger; and can economists and humanists ever be friends?
Read more
Brett Kavanaugh is expected to bring his pro-business bent to the Supreme Court; the DOJ is appealing the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval; Britain fines Facebook and the EU is expected to fine Google; and who really benefits from the GOP’s tax cuts?
Read more
Correct numbers alone cannot stop charismatic politicians using convincing narratives, even if the latter are based on “alternative facts.”
Read more
The Supreme Court’s Ohio v. American Express has few admirers; the financial disclosure of the new director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection reveals a long list of previous corporate clients; Amazon is getting into US health care; and can Netflix avoid the techlash?
Read more