big tech
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Facebook and Instagram’s Canadian News Blackout Is Crushing Student Journalists
In early August, college radio stations and student newspapers across Canada started noticing something odd. Station managers and editors saw big dips in visits to their websites, particularly by way of Facebook and Instagram. Rowan Grice, a 28-year-old station manager at the University of Victoria’s CFUV station, says he received a handful of puzzling messages…
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EU Designates the Big Six ‘Gatekeepers’ of Tech that Need to Bow to Regulations
The European Union is now coming out and saying what they, and everybody else, already knows. The six big tech companies, including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, are the six big “gatekeepers” of our modern online ecosystem. These companies now have to make sure that all of the 22 designated platforms under…
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America Wants a New Agency to Regulate Big Tech
‘We need a nimble, adaptable, new agency with expertise, resources and authority to do the same for Big Tech,’ the senators wrote.
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Google Says It Would Rather Shut Off Canadian News Links Than Pay Publishers
Google says it plans to remove Canadian news links from its search results and other major products once Canada’s hotly contested Online News Act takes effect in the coming months. The bold show of force comes less than one week after Meta announced it would cut off Canadian users’ access to news links on Facebook…