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Facebook, Google ‘blackmailed’ EU media experts into softening fake-news regulation, BEUC director says

( May 22, 2019, 10:21 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Experts from a group tasked with creating the Code of Practice on Disinformation have accused Facebook and Google of "blackmailing" them into watering down fake-news regulations. In an article published by OpenDemocracy, Monique Goyens of BEUC, a European consumer association, said that Facebook's chief lobbyist had threatened to halt funding for journalistic and academic projects if its conditions for the code weren't met.Statement and full article are attached. ...

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