Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram breach the EU’s Digital Services Act by using design features that encourage excessive engagement. The findings follow a two-year investigation...
South Korea’s Fake News Law Raises Free Speech Concerns
Report from EuroNews In Brief – South Korea has begun enforcing a “fake news” law aimed at curbing online misinformation. It imposes tougher penalties for users who deliberately spread false information and requires major digital platforms to strengthen content...
UK Ofcom Proposes Rules Directing Largest Platforms to Fight Scam Ads
Report from the Guardian In Brief – Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released a set of Online Safety Act (OSA) regulatory proposals headlined by rules directing the largest platforms to combat scam advertisers. The requirements will apply to large social...
French Competition Authority Orders Meta to Agree to Pay Media Companies
Report from Reuters In Brief – France’s competition authority has ordered Meta Platforms to submit a media payments proposal and resume negotiations with French media groups over more than a year of unpaid fees for the use of news content on its platforms. The...
Google and Epic Drop Alternative Settlement so Court’s Plan Will Proceed
Report from The Verge In Brief – The federal court-ordered overhaul of Google’s Android app store practices is set to move forward after Google and Epic Games withdrew their joint request to modify the remedies imposed in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit. The companies...
EU General Court Rejects Apple’s Argument that DMA Does Not Apply
Report from Courthouse News Service In Brief – The EU General Court dismissed Apple’s challenge to its designation as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The ruling leaves intact the European Commission’s 2023 decision that Apple is a gatekeeper, and...
President Trump Still Opposes European Digital Taxes and Threatens Tariffs
Report from Politico In Brief – President Donald Trump used a social media post to threaten to impose a 100% tariff on any country that adopts a digital services tax (DST) targeting U.S. technology companies, warning in a social media post that the new tariff would...
Final Big 6 Ads Firm Settles with FTC on Ideological Content Moderation
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that Havas Media Group has agreed to a proposed order that it will not participate in unlawful collusion related to digital advertising “brand safety” standards that the regulator says...
Yelp Wins Legal Ruling in Antitrust Battle with Google
Report from Courthouse News Service In Brief – Federal Magistrate Judge Susan Van Keulen has ruled that Yelp, a leading internet company critic of Google’s search practices, can rely on District Judge Amit Mehta’s 2024 decision in the Justice Department’s landmark...
Illinois Governor Signs Robust AI “Safety” Law
Report from CBS News In Brief – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) has signed the AI Safety Measures Act into law pushing the state to the forefront of AI regulation. The law imposes “safety” requirements on companies developing so-called frontier AI models, including...
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EU Commission Issues Fines to Google in Two DMA Compliance Cases
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for unfairly treating “vertical search” competitors and not appropriately allowing app developers to steer users to cheaper payment...
Federal Judge Approves Anthropic and Authors Copyright Settlement
Report from Engadet In Brief – Federal District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has approved Anthropic’s record $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the company of violating their copyrights to train its Claude AI models. The...
EU Directs Google How to Open Android AI and Search Data to Competitors
Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has directed Google on how to open its Android system to AI rivals and share its search data with online search competitors. The orders are part of two Digital Markets Act (DMA) “specification proceedings” in which...
Economist-Led Expert Group Wants Expert Guardrails to Avoid Jobs Calamity
Report from the New York Times In Brief – In a short public statement titled "We Must Act Now", nearly 200 signatories, led by economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, numerous officials from top universities, business and technology leaders, warned that AI could...
EU Panel Wants Regime to Regulate How Platforms Identify and Serve Minors
Report from Biometric Update In Brief – The European Commission’s special panel on child safety online delivered its report calling for age-based tiers of access and regulation for social media and other digital platforms to protect young people while preserving their...
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