Facebook shows its hand on Section 230 reform
Ahead of yet another US political grilling, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is proposing that Section 230 protections should be restricted to those sites with comment screening systems.
Ahead of yet another US political grilling, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is proposing that Section 230 protections should be restricted to those sites with comment screening systems.
More than 10% of the world’s population will watch eSports and games by 2025, driven by interest in the Asia-Pacific, according to new research published this week.
German operator group DT keeps banging on about how committed it is to combatting online hate speech, but what does that mean in practice?
The tactic of removing all Australian news content by social media giant Facebook, in response to a new law it didn’t like, seems to have been vindicated, at least in the short term.
For some reason US software giant Microsoft has decided the European press needs its help in getting Google and Facebook to pay for news they link to.
The precedent set by Australia in forcing the likes of Facebook and Google to pay the publishers of news that appears on their sites could be copied by the EU.
France’s football governing body has failed to sell off a premium packages of content rights to top-flight games, not due to lack of interest, but because the interested parties declined to meet its reserve price.
The BBC has announced that its iPlayer online streaming service experienced a huge surge in viewing in the first full week of 2021…and it’s a pretty safe bet that no one is surprised to hear that.
AT&T has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony for close to US$1.2 billion, and is reportedly in the latter stages of a sale process for DirecTV, which could be worth about $15 billion.
The largely superfluous second house of UK Parliament reckons journalists need more help than ever and has some bright ideas on what to do about it.
Meandering US telco group Verizon has finally got rid of a media property it was always ill-suited to own.
Gadget giant Apple takes 30% of everything spent on its app store, but it’s halving that rate for anyone who earns let than $1 million per year.
It’s seldom clear what purpose the House of Lords serves, but in launching an inquiry into threats to online freedom of expression it has justified its existence for the time being.
Private equity firms are said to be in talks to acquire large minority stakes in the US telco’s DirecTV, AT&T Now, and U-Verse units.
Later today the US internet giants will be grilled by the Senate over how they censor their platforms, with Section 230 protections at stake.
Mobile streaming video startup Quibi, which was backed by Hollywood, has been forced to shut down after its core narrative failed to persuade.
The launch of AT&T’s in-car streaming service was so quiet it’s almost as if it happened by mistake.
A perfect storm for cinema operators sees Disney join the stampede towards streaming new movies direct to consumers.
Things have not gone according to plan for hot, new streaming service Quibi this year, so now it’s apparently exploring its strategic options.
New Zealand operator Spark has launched a new three-year plan that focuses on significantly diversifying its offering.
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