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Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would be shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media monitoring and transparency tool that…
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The EU Targets Apple, Meta, and Alphabet for Investigations Under New Tech Law
Apple is among three tech giants being investigated for failing to comply with the European Union’s new competition rules, in…
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Europe Lifts Sanctions on Yandex Cofounder Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh, the billionaire cofounder of Russia’s biggest internet company, was removed from the EU sanctions list today, clearing the…
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Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe’s Tough New Tech Law
Europe changed the rules of the internet this week when the Digital Markets Act took effect, holding the biggest tech…
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Europe’s Digital Markets Act Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
Citizens of the European Union live in an internet built and ruled by foreign powers. Most people in the EU…
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Apple Fined $2 Billion as Europe Sides With Spotify
Apple has a Spotify problem—and it just cost the iPhone maker a $2 billion fine from the European Commission. For…
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Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament
Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament, amid accusations that the…
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The EU’s Threats to Elon Musk Are Empty, Sources Say
Penfrat is worried about political overreach—he agrees that disinformation on X is a problem. There is no legal obligation for…
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The Booking.com Decision Shows the True Scope of the EU’s Big Tech Crackdown
When the European Union issued new rules for the internet earlier this year, officials in Brussels envisioned a system that…
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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
Meta denies it has to alter the way it operates in response to the EU ruling, claiming it just needs…
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