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Naver wins legal battle in algorithm-bias case in South Korea

By Wooyoung Lee ( November 6, 2025, 01:41 GMT | Insight) -- South Korean search giant Naver secured a legal victory on Thursday after the country’s top court dismissed algorithm self-preferencing allegations over its video-streaming platform brought by the country’s competition regulator. The Supreme Court reversed a Seoul High Court decision that had partially sided with the sanction decision by the Korea Fair Trade Commission and sent the case back to the appellate court for further review.South Korean search giant Naver secured a legal victory on Thursday after the country’s top court dismissed algorithm self-preferencing allegations over its video-streaming platform brought by the country’s competition regulator....

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