- Court Sides With YouTube In 'Censorship' Battle With 'Misandry Today'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 16, 2021
Siding with Google, a federal appellate court refused to reinstate a lawsuit by commentator Bob Lewis, who claimed the company violated his rights by demonetizing some of the videos ...
- Former Colorado Official Battles Rep. Boebert Over Twitter Block
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis -
Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado should be ordered to immediately stop blocking former state lawmaker Brianna Buentello on Twitter, she argues in a new court filing. ...
- House Committee Approves Antitrust Report Recommending Curbs On Big Tech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 15, 2021
The House Judiciary committee has approved a staff report alleging that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google abused their "tremendous power." ...
- Wyden Bill Would Ban Exporting Americans' Personal Data To Some Countries
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 16, 2021
"Shady data brokers shouldn't get rich selling Americans' private data to foreign countries that could use it to threaten our national security," says Sen. Ron Wyden, who released a discussi ...
- Lincoln Project Targets Corporations Supporting 'Sedition Caucus'
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, April 15, 2021
First on the LP's corporate hit list: Jet Blue. The group is circulating a petition demanding the company stop making political contributions to the 147 Republicans that refused to rati ...
- GOP Floats New Curbs On Tech Companies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 16, 2021
Republican staff in the House suggest broadening the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, limiting Section 230 protections ...
- CTV Grows Dramatically In 2020 Digital Political Ad Spend
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 15, 2021
Mobile (phone) devices remain the dominant leader in political advertising spend -- with a 46% share. ...
- Biden Administration Still Weighing TikTok And WeChat Bans
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
"New and incoming leadership at the Department of Commerce and other interested agencies need additional time to consider potential options," lawyers for the Dept. of Justice wrote in reports fil ...
- Facebook Urged To Cancel Plans For Children's Version Of Instagram
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 15, 2021
"Facebook's long track record of exploiting young people and putting them at risk makes the company particularly unsuitable as the custodian of a photo sharing and social messaging site f ...
- Business Groups, TechFreedom Urge Court To Nix California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
"The very concept of state regulation of data use is problematic," the free-market group TechFreedom writes. "Unless states apply the same rules to data that passes through their borders ...
- Would Biden's Infrastructure-Broadband Plan Impact A DirecTV/Dish Merger?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Total U.S. pay TV subscriber homes dropped 7.3% in Q4 2020 -- the fifth in a series of consecutive 7% quarterly declines. ...
- Texas Man Plotted To Blow Up Amazon Web Services Data Center, FBI Charges
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, April 12, 2021
The man allegedly alluded to the plan on a militia group forum, and targeted the Virginia facility because he believed it services federal agencies. ...
- YouTube Urges Judge To Throw Out QAnon Lawsuit Over Video Takedowns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Members of the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon lack grounds to claim that Google violated their First Amendment rights by taking down YouTube videos, the company argues. ...
- Texas AG Violates First Amendment By Blocking Critics On Twitter, Group Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 8, 2021
In a lawsuit filed Thursday, an advocacy group says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton engages in viewpoint-based discrimination by blocking Twitter users who criticize him or his policies. ...
- '60 Minutes,' Newspapers Fail To Prove DeSantis 'Pay To Play'
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, April 9, 2021
At issue is a possible alliance between the Florida governor and Publix, a local chain distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. ...
- New YouTube Metric Shows Percentage Of Views From Content That Violates Policies
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
With advertisers and lawmakers more focused than ever on social content, the metric is another way for YouTube to try to demonstrate responsiveness. ...
- Supreme Court Won't Revive Right-Wing Activists' Lawsuit Against Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
In a defeat for right-wing activists Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider reviving a lawsuit accusing Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple of conspiri ...
- Court Ends Battle Between Trump And Blocked Critics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Dept. of Justice's request to vacate a lower court's ruling that former President Donald Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking critics ...
- Oklahoma Opt-In Privacy Bill Stalls
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 2, 2021
An Oklahoma privacy bill that would require companies to obtain consumers' explicit consent before using their data for ad targeting appears to have stalled in the state legislature. ...
- Facebook Explores Ranking Some Key Content Categories Differently
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 2, 2021
Facebook has been exploring how and whether to rank some important content categories differently such as news, politics, and health, to make it easier to find posts it deems valuab ...
- Republicans Question Tech Companies Over Parler Takedowns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2021
"The timing of steps taken against the Parler social network by your companies and that the actions seem to lack any of the procedural fairness typically afforded in the ca ...
- Court Upholds FCC's Loosening Of Media Cross-Ownership Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2021
"We conclude that the FCC's 2017 order was reasonable and reasonably explained," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court. ...
- 49% Of Americans View Brand Activism Positively, But Just A Third Think It Will Drive Real Change
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 2, 2021
58% said brands' changing their names/logos had impacted their own buying behavior and/or impressions of brands -- but it's not clear whether that impact was positive or negative. ...
- Hat In Hand, Lincoln Project Says Upcoming Midterms 'Most Consequential' Ever
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, April 1, 2021
With Trump gone from office, the LP has its sights set on its next mission -- the 2022 elections and, more specifically, thwarting any attempted gains by Trump loyalists. ...
- Facebook Prevails In Robotexting Battle
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Handing Facebook a victory, the Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that would have required the company to face a lawsuit over unwanted text messages. ...
- States Newsroom Debuts 21st Local Outlet: 'Idaho Capital Sun'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 1, 2021
The launch is one of five planned for this year in effort to bolster local news coverage. ...
- Biden's Infrastructure Plan May Be Problematic For Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, April 2, 2021
The plan promises to offer some benefits for publishers, such as expanding the number of broadband households. But it also raises the cost of doing business. ...
- Biden Unveils Plan To Expand Broadband, Lift Restrictions On Municipal Networks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
President Joe Biden has unveiled an infrastructure plan that includes $100 billion to expand broadband throughout the country. ...
- Facebook: Trump Can't Use Daughter-In-Law's Account To Circumvent Ban
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Facebook's ban of Trump includes any content using his voice being posted on accounts associated with his campaign or owned by his surrogates. ...
- Texas AG Says Twitter Not Entitled To Stop Probe Of Editorial Policies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Twitter isn't entitled to a court order prohibiting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from continuing with a probe into the company's content-moderation practices, he is telling a federal judge. ...
