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UK online safety law has 'good powers' even if it is ‘uneven,' minister says January 13, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Technology companies have been warned by a UK minister to comply with the Online Safety Act even though it is an "uneven, unsatisfactory" piece of legislation. Peter Kyle argued also that nevertheless, the gov... (more story)

China's draft rules task platforms with ensuring MCN content compliance January 13, 2025 | MLex Staff

China's Internet information content service platforms have received draft rules, assigning them roles in ensuring content compliance for Multi-Channel Network organizations. On Friday, the Cyberspace Administ... (more story)

US judge won’t issue preliminary block of Minnesota political deepfake law January 10, 2025 | Emma Whitford

US District Judge Laura M. Provinzino today declined to quickly block a Minnesota law criminalizing the sharing of AI-generated election deepfakes, but found that Republican state Representative Mary Franson h... (more story)

Potential TikTok ban scrutinized by US Supreme Court as deadline approaches January 10, 2025 | Mike Swift

The US Supreme Court spent more than two and a half hours hearing argument today from TikTok, TikTok creators and the US Solicitor General about whether it should block or delay the Jan. 19 deadline for China'... (more story)

Time for Apple intervention in Google search monopoly suit long gone, US DOJ, states say January 09, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Khushita Vasant

The time for Apple to intervene in a federal lawsuit against Google over alleged monopolization of Internet search markets has “come and gone,” and its “eleventh-hour effort" to get involved in a remedy trial ... (more story)

Meta files EU risk assessment required for content-moderation changes (update*) January 09, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Meta Platforms has filed risk assessment documents to EU regulators needed to comply with the Digital Services Act over changes to its content-moderation practices that were announced earlier this week. They w... (more story)

Video-sharing platforms might face new obligations, EU countries say January 09, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok might face new obligations following the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which is due by 2026. EU countries are asking the Eu... (more story)

Big Tech could be pressed to share data ‘valuable’ to UK financial services January 09, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

Big Tech companies that hold data found to be valuable to the UK's financial services sector could be pressured through regulation to share it for the benefit of consumers, the UK financial markets watchdog ha... (more story)

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Meta's new content policies may impress Trump, European regulators not so much January 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter, Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo

Meta Platforms is introducing broad changes to content moderation globally, alongside a US-specific redesign of its fact-checking program. The company is already speaking to European regulators about the world... (more story)

Musk’s backing German party prompts questions on EU DSA’s enforcement teeth January 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Elon Musk’s full-throated support of Germany’s far-right party Alternative for Germany —  just weeks before the German elections — has put the spotlight on the Digital Services Act, the EU’s content moderation... (more story)

EU Digital Fairness Act set for early 2026, with consumer protection in focus January 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar

In 2026, the Digital Fairness Act — an initiative designed to strengthen consumer protections in the digital landscape — is set to be proposed by the European Commission. Building on the findings of the lates... (more story)

Beyond Washington, 2025 looms as huge year in US data privacy January 09, 2025 | Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes

When the first important privacy ruling of 2025 by a US federal judge landed this week — Google’s summary judgment loss in litigation alleging it illegally tracked users’ mobile web activities and app usage — ... (more story)

With Meta's end to fact-checking expected to hit Brazil soon, Supreme Court looks on January 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Henrique Santiago

Although Meta’s move from a fact-checking program to a community-notes moderation system is set to start in the US, Brazilian fact-checking partners expect the same to happen in their country imminently, MLex ... (more story)

Disney’s Fubo buyout offers path around sports venture’s US ‘antitrust problem’ January 07, 2025 | Chris May

When FuboTV’s leadership decided to bet the fate of its sports-centric streaming platform on an antitrust showdown with three US media giants in early 2024, CEO David Gandler was public about the fact that he ... (more story)

Meta shifts US content-moderation policies before Trump, GOP take power January 07, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

Meta Platforms executives, nodding to the "free speech" concerns of President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans days before they're set to take charge, announced new content-moderation guideline... (more story)

Private companies to prepare for EU cybersecurity law, despite legal gaps January 07, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Júlia Tar

Private companies should get prepared to comply with the EU’s updated Network and Information Systems law — the NIS2 directive — even though most EU governments have missed the deadline for its transposition i... (more story)