Report from Reuters In Brief – X has filed a lawsuit in federal court to block enforcement of a Minnesota state law that bans people from using AI-generated “deepfakes” to influence an election and threatens those who disseminate such content with fines and jail...
The US Wants Digital Services Tax Relief in a US-EU Trade Deal
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent singled out national Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) imposed by some EU member states on the largest digital companies, who are most often US-based, as something the Trump Administration wants to...
Federal Judge Hammers Apple for Violating Her App Store Fees Court Order
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers hammered Apple for violating her 2021 unfair competition ruling related to App Store restrictions, issued an order prohibiting Apple from charging any fees on any in-app sales made by...
Congress Passes Bill Targeting Non-Consensual Intimate Images Online
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The TAKE IT DOWN Act, bipartisan legislation criminalizing the posting online of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) and forcing platforms to quickly take it down has been overwhelmingly passed by the US Congress and sent to...
US Government Challenges AI Act Code of Practice on General Purpose AI
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The US Government is calling on the European Commission to delay the release of the AI Code of Practice for “General Purpose” AI that is scheduled to be finalized in May to help provide guidance to developers of the largest and most...
DoJ Plans Further Break Up of Google in AdTech Antitrust Case Remedies
Report from the TechCrunch In Brief – The US Department of Justice has informed the federal judge that recently ruled that Google was guilty of “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the digital ad space that it would ask that Google be forced to sell...
Google Makes First Payments to Canadian News Media Companies
Report from the Toronto Star In Brief – The Canadian Journalism Collective, an organization that is distributing some of the funds contributed by Google to pay Canadian news media outlets in exchange for Google being exempted from the media payments scheme created by...
Conservative Activist Sues Meta Over Defamatory AI Hallucinations
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist notable for successfully pressuring companies to change their DEI practices, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that its AI tool smeared him by falsely asserting...
Oregon Legislature Advances a Forced State Media Funding Bill
Report from the Nelson Star In Brief – Legislation that aims to force the largest digital platform companies, especially Google and Meta, to pay Oregon media companies when the content they create appears in search results or on the companies’ social media platforms,...
Apple Appeals “Extraordinary” Judicial Order That Bans App Fees and Rules
Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has petitioned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to block a court order from District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers requiring it to permit all app developers to direct users to external websites for in-app purchases without...
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Tennessee Sues Roblox for Harm to Children and Teens
Report from Citizen Tribune In Brief – Tennessee is the fourth US state to sue Roblox, alleging that the company lures children into an environment it knows is dangerous but promises is safe, in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The complaint,...
EU Officials Condemn Visa Bans for European Content Moderation Advocates
Report from Reuters In Brief – Senior officials of the European Union, France and Germany condemned US visa bans imposed on five Europeans, including French former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, that have pressed large online platforms to counter what they call...
Italian Regulator Fines Apple €98 million for App Tracking Data Policy
Report from EuroNews In Brief – Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple 98 million euro for imposing its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework on third-party add developers starting in 2021. The ATT policy requires app developers to gain explicit user...
French Court Rejects Effort to Fully Ban Shein
Report from Wall Street Journal In Brief – Shein scored a win in French court with a ruling that rejected a government effort to fully suspend the ecommerce platform in France for three months. French authorities had sought the shutdown after finding third-party...
Federal Appeals Panel Rejects Effort to Judge Meta Pixel as “Wiretapping”
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the January dismissal of a class-action complaint alleging that Quest Diagnostics violated California’s wiretap law by sharing users’ web browsing information with Meta through...
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