The Primetime Emmy Awards’ broadcast deal expires this year, and the next bidders will negotiate in a world where social media impressions dwarf live viewership.
Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July an…
The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation…
Emmanuel Macron has asked the European Commission to ban children under 15 from social media across the bloc, three weeks after France’s highest constitutional authority struck down his government’s attempt to do the same thing nationally. The request …
Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week, Reuters reported, and…
Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.ne…
On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trad…
X’s continued need of “formerly Twitter” just won it a preliminary injunction.
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and…
YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats …