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Google paying more than 300 EU publishers for news, more to come | Reuters
by Foo Yun Chee
May 12, 2022
BRUSSELS, May 11 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany,…
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | The New Yorker
by Ronan Farrow
April 21, 2022
The parliament of Catalonia, the autonomous region in Spain, sits on the edge of Barcelona’s Old City, in the remains…
Liberal government tables legislation to force online giants to compensate news outlets | CBC News
by John Paul Tasker
April 7, 2022
The federal Liberal government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their…
Facebook Content Moderators in Kenya To Receive Pay Rise | Time
by Billy Perrigo
March 3, 2022
Facebook content moderators based in Kenya will receive a salary increase of between 30% and 50%, in a move announced…
Disinformation and the Business of the Consumer Internet
February 14, 2022
Introduction The 2016 presidential election in the United States stood to be historic—and historic it was, albeit in part for…
The Metaverse is a labour issue | Social Europe
by Valerio de Stefano, Antonio Aloisi, and Nicola Countouris
February 3, 2022
In mid-January, the news that Microsoft was investing almost $70 billion in the ‘Metaverse’ hit the headlines. Yet it was…
Bug Bounties For Algorithmic Harms? | Algorithmic Justice League
by Josh Kenway, Camille François, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, and Joy Buolamwini
January 27, 2022
Paying hackers to disclose bugs was once considered radical; now, it’s common. ‘Bug bounty’ programs (BBPs) for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, wherein…
This group of tech firms just signed up to a safer metaverse | MIT Technology Review
by Tanya Basu
January 27, 2022
The internet can feel like a bottomless pit of the worst aspects of humanity. So far, there’s little indication that…
Bill Seeking to Outlaw Self-Preferencing by Amazon, Google Clears Hurdle in Senate | The Markup
by Aaron Sankin
January 25, 2022
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday gave its stamp of approval to the first major legislative effort meant to stop…