Clik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over
LONDON — When Donald Trump won in 2016, social media got the blame. Not this time. Trump’s first victory in the U.S. presidential election that year — plus the shock vote in the U.K. to leave the...
View ArticleZuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program
Facebook’s parent company Meta will end its third-party fact-checking program and move to a so-called community notes model, company chief Mark Zuckerberg announced today. “We’re going to get back to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Musk, Meta fuel far-right attack against EU tech ‘censorship’
BRUSSELS—For the European far right, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade against perceived European Union “censorship” is a welcome gift. European far-right lawmakers have long opposed the EU’s...
View Article