The UK’s digital minister warned he had “very grave concerns” about Facebook’s plans to expand end-to-end encryption across all user communications.
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Facebook’s brief but tempestuous standoff with the Australian government over a world-first pay-for-news law is only the start of a string of regulatory battles that the world’s biggest social network faces in 2021.
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.
Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday criticised polarisation and misinformation on social media, intensifying a conflict between the iPhone maker and Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he sees Apple as a “significant” future competitor as the two companies begin to build out rival business lines.
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History has shown that Facebook is able to impose new terms and conditions on users with little negative consequence. Rinse and repeat. By Alex Webb.
Last year’s backlash against Facebook’s planned digital currency libra would have been most CEOs’ worst nightmare. It hasn’t deterred Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook has attacked Apple in a series of full-page newspaper advertisements, claiming the iPhone maker’s anticipated mobile software changes around data gathering are bad for small businesses.