House Antitrust Panel Asks Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple to Share Internal Documents
Tech giants are facing increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over their dominance of social media and online advertising
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Google Faces New Antitrust Probe From 50 Attorneys General
Yet another investigation into Silicon Valley business practices pops up
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YouTube to Pay Record $170 Million After FTC Says It Violated Children’s Privacy Law
“Nothing is more important than protecting kids and their privacy,” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki writes in Wednesday blog post
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Laura Ingraham After Grammar Tweet: ‘You’re a Neo-Nazi Fan Favorite’
The Fox News host corrected Ocasio-Cortez’s word choice, leading the congresswoman to respond
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Bernie Sanders Calls for Moratorium on Major Media Mergers Like ViacomCBS
Presidential hopeful also calls out “monopolistic” Facebook and Google in a Columbia Journalism Review op-ed
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Why Bloomberg Is Diving Deep Into OTT to Capture Market-Savvy Consumers
“Traditional TV doesn’t have the power of digital,” M. Scott Havens, Bloomberg’s global head of digital and media distribution, says
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YouTube Discriminates Against LGBTQ Creators, Lawsuit Says
Video giant blocks LGBTQ creators from monetizing their channels and labels them “sexually explicit” for their sexual orientation, new lawsuit says
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Facebook Offers Top News Outlets Millions of Dollars Annually to License Content
ABC News, the Washington Post, and others have been pitched by the social media giant
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Jokes She Could Be Marianne Williamson’s Running Mate After ‘Yadda Yadda’ Debate Comment
“Veep” star calls Williamson’s use of the Seinfeldian catchphrase “bizarre”
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Trump Warns France: Don’t Tax Our ‘Great’ Tech Giants
The president also blasted French wine for good measure
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Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for ‘Election Manipulation,’ Says Free Speech Rights Were Violated
Democratic representative says tech giant engaged in censorship when it suspended a recent ad campaign
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Justice Department Launches Antitrust Review of Tech Giants
DoJ’s look into unlawful competitive practices could put Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies in regulatory danger
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Daily Stormer Founder Ordered to Pay $14 Million to Montana Woman Subjected to ‘Troll Storm’
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch’s recommendation is now subject to approval by a U.S. district judge
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Trump Will ‘Take a Look’ at Peter Thiel’s Claims Google Was ‘Infiltrated’ by China
Thiel says Google’s clandestine A.I. operation should be investigated by CIA and FBI
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FTC Approves Record $5 Billion Settlement With Facebook
The settlement easily surpasses the FTC’s largest penalty to this point — a $22.5 million fine against Google in 2012
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4 Must-Haves Gaming Livestreamer Caffeine Needs to Compete With Twitch
“If it thinks it can compete as another gaming ‘network’ it will fail. This is not ABC vs. NBC vs. FOX,” CEO of Subnation Seven Volpone tells TheWrap
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YouTube Rolls Out New ‘Don’t Recommend’ Feature
If you’re tired of seeing a certain creator or channel in your feed, Google-owned giant will now let you permanently block them
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YouTube Names Martin Kon Vice President of Strategy
Media analyst joins YouTube after two decades in the consulting world
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7 Big Media Trends of 2019 (So Far), From Streaming Fatigue to DirecTV Now’s Face Plant
“Soon we’ll all start looking at our credit card bills and start saying, ‘Why am I subscribing to all of these services?”” Paul Hardart, a former Warner Bros. executive, told TheWrap
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Mediaite, Daily Caller, Raw Story and Others Launch Ad-Sales Alliance to Challenge Google, Facebook
Political ad spending expected to be close to $10 billion in 2020
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YouTube Chief Defends Not Banning Conservative Commentator Steven Crowder
Susan Wojcicki apologizes to LGBTQ community for “hurtful” but “right” decision
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Google Makes Nearly $5 Billion Annually From News, Study Finds
About 40% of tech giant’s trending clicks come from publishers, according to the News Media Alliance
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Trump Rips Big Tech, Says the ‘Real Collusion’ Is Between Democrats and Silicon Valley
“They discriminate against me,” POTUS says about Facebook, Amazon, Google
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Some YouTube Creators Worry They’ll Get the Steven Crowder Treatment With ‘Arbitrary’ Rules Enforcement
“Right now it’s largely conservatives being censored… but, undoubtedly, today its conservatives and tomorrow it can be you,” PragerU’s chief marketing officer Craig Strazzeri says
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Tech Execs on the State of Silicon Beach and the Challenge of Doing Business While Doing Good (Video)
TheGrill 2019: “If you believe that Facebook and Instagram and Google and others are contributing to the problems in our democracy, is it ethical to continue to be on those platforms?” Magnet Companies co-founder Jeff Berman asks
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Facebook, Google Take Wall Street Beating Amid Potential Tech Regulations
Big tech is hit hard after the FTC and DOJ divide up antitrust investigations
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YouTube Bans Livestreams From ‘Younger Minors’ Unless Supervised by an Adult
Channels that violate its new policy “may lose their ability to live stream,” Google-owned company says
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Roku vs Amazon: The Battle for Streaming Device Supremacy Heats Up (Chart)
Nearly half of all U.S. households that stream use Roku or Amazon devices, according to new data
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Why Instagram Hiding ‘Likes’ Could Be Good for Users – and the Bottom Line
Likes impact the brain in the same way sex and gambling do — and can lead to compulsive phone checking — one expert tells TheWrap
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Justin Bieber Partners With YouTube for Project Launching in 2020
YouTube Originals will now focus on content centered on music, personalities, and learning
