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UK parliament requires antitrust, information abuse probe of Fb

A last file by way of a British parliamentary committee which spent months ultimate yr investigating on-line political disinformation makes very uncomfortable studying for Fb — with the corporate singled out for “disingenuous” and “bad faith” responses to democratic concer…
A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes very uncomfortable reading for Facebook — with the company singled out for “disingenuous” and “bad faith” responses to democratic concer…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Reset yer counters: Facebook has had to fess up to yet another major ad reporting fail. This one looks like it could be costly for the tech giant to put right not least because its another dent in its reputation for self reporting". (November 26, 2020)
  2. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  3. "Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you dont". (January 26, 2021)
  4. "The deadline for Europe to make a call on the Google -Fitbit merger has been pushed out again with EU regulators now having until January 8, 2021, to take a decision". (October 16, 2020)
  5. "Austrias Supreme Court has dismissed Facebooks appeal in a long running speech takedown case ruling it must remove references to defamatory comments made about a local politician worldwide for as long as the injunction lasts". (November 12, 2020)
  6. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  7. "Facebooks lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month". (April 14, 2021)
  8. "Googles plan to end support for third-party cookies in the Chrome browser and its Chromium engine is under investigation by the U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)". (January 8, 2021)
  9. "A Facebook -funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider". (December 1, 2020)
  10. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
  11. "A coalition of 135 startups and tech companies with services in verticals including travel, accommodation and jobs have written to the European Commission to urge antitrust action against Google warning that swift enforcement is needed or some of their businesses may not survive". (November 12, 2020)
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