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New Twitter mission: content accuracy (whatever that means)
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says platform’s mission is now to become the most accurate source of information about the world. “Accurate to who?,” asks Jack Dorsey. Read more…
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Australia tells Big Tech to share child abuse content plans
A regulatory body in Australia orders Meta, Apple and Microsoft to share strategies for stamping out child abuse material on their platforms or face fines. Read more…
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Indonesia is preparing harsh new content rules for internet companies
Indonesia is readying tough new rules to fine and criminally charge internet and social media platforms for “unlawful” content. Read more…
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Vodafone Idea adds Vi Games to its digital content arsenal to boost ARPUs
Vodafone Idea launches Vi Games in partnership with Nazara Technologies as it looks to monetize its growing data subscriber base in India. Read more…
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Lock-screen platform Glance gets $200m from Jio Platforms
Jio Platforms said that it is investing $200 million to buy a 17% stake in Glance – an AI-driven lock-screen platform owned by InMobi Group. Read more…
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Russia to keep throttling mobile Twitter until it deletes banned content
Russia will continue slowing down the speed of Twitter on mobile devices until all content deemed illegal is deleted, says Roskomnadzor. Read more…
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Google to pay publishers $1b for news over next three years
Google plans to pay $1 billion to publishers globally for their news over the next three years. And there was much rejoicing. Read more…
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It’s 2019 and fraudulent mobile apps are still ripping us off
Eleven years after the first app stores launched, fraudulent apps are still a problem. The latest example – a weather app – is even a repeat offender. Read more…
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Game fights fake news by letting players create their own
Cambridge researchers aim to fight fake news with a game that shows players how to create it. But will people trust that the game itself isn’t fake news? Read more…
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Telecom Asia magazine dead at 29: a eulogy
Telecom Asia magazine was shut down on Friday at the tender age of 29. John Tanner delivers the eulogy and ponders whether TA really had to die. Read more…
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New EU copyright rules shake up content sharing norms
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday to force Google, Facebook and other technology firms to share more revenues with European media, publishers and other content creators in a shake-up of copyright rules. Read more…
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EU wants extremist content deleted in one hour
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday proposed hefty fines on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content within one hour. Brussels gave internet firms Read more…
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Go-Jek targets digital media with Kumparan investment
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company Go-Jek has invested in digital media startup Kumparan as part of its expansion into online content, it said. Go-Jek, whose backers include Google and Tencent, has Read more…
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Smartphone addiction: can we go from FOMO to JOMO?
A recent RISE panel addressed smartphone addiction. There’s no easy solution, but some users are already voluntarily unplugging – and loving it. Earlier this month we published a column by Mr Tony Poulos about the Read more…
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Germans can now inherit their loved ones’ Facebook page
BERLIN (Reuters) – Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a landmark privacy ruling on Thursday, saying a social media account can be Read more…
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EU lawmakers reject tougher digital copyright rules … for now
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU lawmakers have opted not to take a tough line on an EU copyright overhaul aimed at making Google, Facebook and other tech giants share revenues with publishers, broadcasters and artists after Read more…
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Content companies dismiss criticism of EU copyright overhaul
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s music, broadcasting and publishing industries have hit back at internet critics of an EU overhaul of copyright rules, saying claims the reforms might lead to the demise of the internet amount Read more…
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Hainan plans to lift Great Firewall … for foreign tourists, anyway
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s southern province of Hainan will offer foreigners unrestricted internet access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as part of new incentives to boost tourism. The island province known as China’s Hawaii because Read more…
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Mandatory content filter tech will hurt EU start-ups: study
Imposing content-filtering technology on online platforms could be very difficult to implement and costly for European start-ups and scale-ups, according to a new survey from Analysys Mason commissioned by Allied for Startups. Legislators in the Read more…
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AT&T to invest $21 billion in new WarnerMedia subsidiary
(Reuters) – AT&T is committed to spend as much as needed on the media business of newly acquired Time Warner – now known as WarnerMedia – chief executive Randall Stephenson told CNBC on Friday, with a Read more…