The US justice department filed an antitrust lawsuit in Washington DC federal court Tuesday, alleging Alphabet’s Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising using exclusionary and interlocking business agreements to keep out competitors.
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The US DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the EU turns on cross-border contact tracing app interoperability, and you can now actually buy the LG rollable OLED.
Apple launches the free streaming channel Apple Music TV, Ireland’s DPC launches an investigation into Instagram’s use of children’s data, and TikTok is no longer banned in Pakistan.
Apple announces new iPhones, social media platforms react to a controversial New York Times story on Hunter Biden, and Google announces the final migration from Hangouts to Chat.
After criticism of how Twitter applied its hacked materials policy the company announced Thursday evening it would change the policy. What’s changed and will it have any effect?
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A report from the Belgian data protection agency finds that the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework violates GDPR, Twitter revises its Hacked Materials Policy, and GameStop will receive a percentage of Xbox console revenue for unit sold in its channels.
Twitter blocked the ability of its users to link to or repost images from a New York Post story about VP Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Twitter said the story violated its personal information policy because it included private information like phone numbers and email addresses. Is this a sign of a more actively policed Twitter for rule breakers or something that should have been done sooner?
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Facebook announced it reduced the reach of a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden while its fact checkers review it and Twitter blocks links and images to it, Snap rolls out music clips for snaps and stories, and Warner Media will discontinue its HBO channel in India.
Paypal gets into cryptocurrencies, Facebook clones NextDoor and Amazon’s game streaming service Luna launches.
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