tech policy
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Facebook Loses Only Fact-Checking Partner In The Netherlands Over Lies In Political Ads
Facebook has lost its only fact-checking partner in the Netherlands, Dutch digital newspaper NU.nl, over its policy of allowing politicians to openly lie in ads on the platform, according to an article on NPO 3.
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Facebook Still Screwing Up This Whole Politics Thing Pretty Bad
Facebook has continued to fumble efforts to extract itself from its self-imposed political nightmare, with the company seeing increasing backlash to both its political advertising policies and continuing to stonewall criticism of its choice to partner with far-right outlet Breitbart on its news platform.
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FTC Chief: Well Yes, We Could Break Up Big Tech, But Only If We Really, Really Wanted To Or Something
The chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Chairman Joe Simons, acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday that perhaps maybe, just maybe, one outcome of an FTC task force inquiry into whether tech giants violated anticompetition laws could be forcing them to break up into smaller companies, according to reports in Reuters and Bloomberg.
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Facebook’s Libra Project Is Getting Hammered From All Sides, With U.S. Chair Raising ‘Serious Concerns’
Facebook’s already-troubled Libra cryptocurrency project, which has already run into significant opposition among the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Banking Committee, is running headlong into further resistance from regulators.