Report from Euronews In Brief – As expected, the European Commission has announced the expansion of its ongoing investigation of X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to include reviewing the operations of its recommender systems, including the algorithms that...
European Commission Reviewing Ongoing Big Tech Investigations (or Not)
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is reported to be undertaking an internal review of all the investigations of major US tech companies begun during the past year, including under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulating the largest...
Digital Giants Agree to Updated EU Hate Speech Code of Conduct
Report from The Verge In Brief – The European Commission announced that the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online + has been formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA). The updated code builds upon the initial EU Code of Conduct created...
President Trump Fully Revokes President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Donald Trump revoked President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence as one of the 78 Biden Administration executive orders and memorandums included in his Inauguration Day Executive Order fully rescinding...
UK Government Replaces Antitrust Chief with Former Amazon Executive
Report from the BBC In Brief – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government has forced out Marcus Bokkerink as the chair of its antitrust regulator for failing to prioritize the government’s economic growth agenda. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she...
Billionaires and Others Eyeing Potential TikTok Purchase Overseen by Trump
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Following President Trump’s issuance of an executive order extending by 75 days the deadline for ByteDance to divest ownership of TikTok’s US operations or see the service shut down, a growing array of business leaders, investors, and...
Singapore Imposes App User Age Verification Duties on Large App Stores
Report from Channel News Asia In Brief – Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the country’s digital and media regulator, has announced that app stores will soon be required to protect children from inappropriate apps through age verification...
EU and German Regulators Testing How Platforms Will Handle Elections
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission and German Government are planning to perform a “stress test” on the major digital platforms on January 31 to determine their processes regarding the upcoming German elections. Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap,...
Meta Wins Temporary Relief in India from WhatsApp Data Sharing Ban
Report from Reuters In Brief – A two-judge panel of the Indian National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has temporarily halted the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order prohibiting WhatsApp from sharing user data with other services of its parent company,...
DST Act 3 – The Return of Trump and Threats of Tariff and Tax Retaliation
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – President Donald Trump has effectively pulled the United States out of the global corporate tax reform agreement at the OECD negotiated by the Biden Administration in 2021 and backed by 140 countries. That deal tried to...
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EU Investigating How Four More Large Platforms Protect Minors
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – The European Commission has asked Snapchat, YouTube, Apple’s App Store and Google Play how they protect children on their platforms, including how they attempt to verify users’ ages and prevent minors from accessing harmful...
California Joins Social Media Warning Label Movement
Report from Politico In Brief – California has enacted legislation requiring social media platforms to display warning labels to users unless the platform has “reasonably determined” that they are over age 17. The required warning label reads, “The Surgeon General has...
Google Makes Another Vertical Search Offer to Comply with the EU DMA
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has proposed more changes to its search results page to improve the visibility of “vertical” search competitors, such as those specializing in hotels, airfares, or local services, to resolve the European Commission’s preliminary...
Key US House Chairman Questions Who Will Control the US TikTok Algorithm
Report from Reuters In Brief – House Select Committee on China Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) remains concerned that the deal to transfer control of TikTok’s US assets to US buyers could be problematic if the US platform licenses the content algorithm from China-based...
Italian Publishers File a DSA Complaint About Google AI Overviews
Report from The Guardian In Brief – FIEG, the Italian federation of newspaper publishers, has announced that it has submitted a formal complaint to Agcom, Italy’s communications watchdog, calling for an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews, arguing that the search...
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