INTERNET INDUSTRY – REGULATION

Facebook admits Russia error

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Original article by Helen Warrell, Guy Chazan, Michael Peel
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 19 : 17-Feb-20

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has called for greater regulation of harmful content on the internet while speaking at the Munich Security Conference. Zuckerberg conceded that the social media company had been tardy in understanding Russian disinformation campaigns during the 2016 US presidential election campaign, while he said that purveyors of disinformation are becoming better at "covering their tracks". Zuckerberg added that Facebook has 35,000 people working on content and security reviews, and that it takes down more than one million fake accounts each day.

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Facebook, Google are not publishers: US anti-trust expert

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Original article by Yolanda Redrup
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 30-Apr-19

US competition lawyer Howard Shelanski has urged caution when it comes to passing laws that would dictate how Facebook and Google should display content or refer users to news websites. Shelanski, who is a partner with law firm Davis Polk and advises Facebook on competition law, contends that Google and Facebook are not publishers. On the question of mergers, Shelanski says there needs to be greater acknowledgement of the value of competition and innovation when regulators are assessing them.

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Google faces global media revolt

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Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: Online : 10-Sep-18

News Corp Australia has called for "structural intervention" to curb what it claims is Google’s anti-competitive behaviour. It did so in a submission to an Australian Competition & Consumer Commission inquiry into digital platforms. Such intervention could include having Google broken up, a suggestion that was made by the European parliament’s committee on economic and monetary affairs in April. Google has already been fined billions of dollars by European regulators for anti-competitive behaviour.

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