EU to Zuckerberg: Explain yourself over Instagram pedophile network
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wants Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain and take “immediate” action over a recently exposed large pedophile network on Instagram. Instagram has been...
View ArticleElon Musk wants cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg (yes, really)
Billionaire entrepreneur and Twitter owner Elon Musk is picking a fight with Mark Zuckerberg — and the Facebook chief is up for it. Musk (on Twitter, naturally) began the spat Wednesday by laughing...
View ArticleEurope’s digital ‘enforcer’ takes EU tech rulebook to Silicon Valley
The European Union is firing a last warning shot at Silicon Valley titans ahead of the incoming rules to police social media platforms. Europe’s digital Commissioner Thierry Breton is in California to...
View ArticleMeta agrees to July ‘stress test’ on new EU content rules
Meta has agreed to a July “stress test” on new EU content rules, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said late Friday after meeting with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in California. The test is a...
View ArticleMusk limits number of posts Twitter users can view per day
Twitter users will face new limitations on the number of tweets they can view per day, according to a tweet from the company’s billionaire owner Elon Musk on Saturday. “To address extreme levels of...
View ArticleZuckerberg’s Twitter rival Threads reaches 10M users in 7 hours
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that his Threads app, a micro-blogging competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter, had more than 10 million sign-ups in just seven hours. Announcing the Threads...
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Europe’s Big Tech rules come at a cost. Look at Threads and Bard
PARIS — For years, Europe boasted its digital rules — on privacy, on social media, on antitrust — would force others to follow its lead. But when push came to shove, the rest of the world, or, at...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in Latvijas Avize, Latvia, July 3, 2023 | By Gatis Sluka First published on Politicalcartoons.com, Croatia, July 3, 2023 | By Nikola Listes First published on Caglecartoons.com, U.S.,...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in The Boston Globe, U.S., July 12, 2023 | By Christopher Weyant First published on Caglecartoons.com, Bulgaria, July 11, 2023 | By Christo Komarnitski First published on Patreon.com,...
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The Westminster-Big Tech revolving door keeps spinning
LONDON — Seeking influence in the corridors of power, Big Tech firms can’t get enough of Britain’s leading politicos. From former policy advisers to ex-spin doctors and even the odd journalist, the...
View ArticleZuckerberg and Musk trade zingers over cage fight plans
Billionaire-entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to livestream a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter — but the Meta chief isn’t having it. After Musk said...
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Musk vs. Zuckerberg: Round-by-round scoring of the cage fight of the century
Musk vs. Zuckerberg: Round-by-round scoring of the cage fight of the century It’s just not a fight without the pre-fight hype. Photo-illustration by Giulia Poloni/POLITICO (source images via Getty and...
View ArticleItaly wants Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage fight
You’ve heard of the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle. Well, how about the Melee in Milan or the Fracas in Florence? Italy is primed to host the proposed cage fight between tech...
View ArticleZuckerberg calls off Musk cage fight: ‘Elon isn’t serious’
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has called off his cage fight with fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk, accusing the Tesla CEO of wasting his time. “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time...
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Big Tech firms first in line for fines under the EU’s content law
After years of light-touch regulation, tech leviathans including Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and Google could soon face investigations — and hefty fines — in the European Union if they don’t...
View Article5 things to know as the Digital Markets Act ramps up
The world’s largest tech companies are gearing up for tight rules on how they run their businesses in the European Union. The bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will compel Big Tech firms to make it...
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How Rishi Sunak convinced the world to worry about AI
LONDON — Whisper it, but British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might just be winning the argument on artificial intelligence. When the United Kingdom first announced its much-hyped global AI summit —...
View ArticleUK dials up fight with Meta over encryption
LONDON — The gloves are off in the U.K. government’s deepening spat with tech giant Meta. On Wednesday, Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman unveiled a fresh campaign aimed at making the Mark...
View ArticleAfter Musk, EU gives Zuckerberg deadline to address Hamas content
European Commissioner Thierry Breton has written to Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook’s parent company Meta, asking him to respond within 24 hours to explain his plan to limit falsehoods and illegal...
View ArticleAfter X and Meta, TikTok now pressed by EU to tackle Hamas content
TikTok’s Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew was asked on Thursday to tell the European Commission within 24 hours how it is protecting children and teenagers from violent content and misinformation...
View ArticleYouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content
Google’s Sundar Pichai is the latest tech chief to receive a letter from Brussels urging him to be “very vigilant” to ensure Hamas-connected disinformation and illegal content doesn’t spread on...
View ArticleMoscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports
Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesperson of U.S. tech giant Meta Andy Stone to its wanted list, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. Stone “is wanted under an article of the...
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OK boomers: A politics guide to Gen Z’s internet slang
“Vladimir Putin has lowkey been taking Ls, with a mid performance that shows a mad lack of rizz. But he’s been a pick me boy ever since the sus handshake: Viktor Orbán. It’s giving villains, no cap.”...
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How tech-savvy civilians became the new masters of war
MUNICH — It’s the techno-military industrial complex. Ukrainian troops are dealing with artillery shell shortages by arming themselves with off-the-shelf drones. Kyiv’s defense relies on access to...
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Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology
Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology Can anyone control AI? By Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Clothilde Goujard and...
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As the media’s resources dwindle, it’ll only get harder to tell fact from fake
Tom Harper is a former Sunday Times journalist and is now head of media relations, Europe at APCO, a global advisory and advocacy firm. When Buckingham Palace released an intimate Mother’s Day...
View ArticleZuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content
Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets that Meta bowed to Biden administration pressure to censor content, saying in a letter that the interference was “wrong” and he plans to push back if it happens again....
View ArticleZuckerberg’s new Washington game
On the surface, the apologetic letter Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to congressional Republicans on Monday looks like a capitulation in the long-simmering political wars over social media. But tech...
View ArticleTrump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election in...
Former President Donald Trump writes in a new book set to be published next week that Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and said the Meta chief executive would “spend the...
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Europe’s privacy patrol is spoiling Big Tech’s AI party
More than six years after it took effect, Europe’s mighty data-protection rulebook is getting its second wind — by stymieing the artificial intelligence plans of Big Tech giants. In just a few months,...
View ArticleZuckerberg: It’s ‘sad’ that EU is left behind on AI
Mark Zuckerberg tells Meta staff not to push out new artificial intelligence services in the European Union – and he thinks that’s sad. Meta’s chief executive commented late Wednesday on Threads –...
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