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Europe’s next regulatory challenge: Meta’s apporach to the fediverse

So far, digital services exist in singular bubbles. Though some of them are really huge, their servers work independently. Fediverse will connect these bubbles, letting people interact accross different channels. This poses new challenges for European regulators as they might partly lose their grip on digital markets and services. Here is Meta’s first explainer.

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UN chief Guterres: Algorithms should not control what people see

The United Nations launched new Global Principles for Information Integrity on Monday, emphasizing the need for immediate action to address the harms caused by misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined key recommendations aimed at making information spaces safer while upholding the freedom of speech.

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DMA: EVP Margrethe Vestager at the European Competition Network conference

“The digital sector has brought a lot of benefits, but it has also created many issues. Over the years, we saw that dominance and entrenched positions became the norm, sometimes leading to abuses. Digital markets have not always lived up to their promise of helping small businesses scale up and reach more customers. In our antitrust practice we saw that SMEs face many challenges, in particular those that operate only

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DMA case against Apple: EU Commission opens additional investigation

The EU Commission has informed Apple of its preliminary view that its App Store rules are in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In addition, the Commission opened a new non-compliance procedure against Apple over concerns that its new contractual requirements for third-party app developers and app stores fall short of DMA rules.

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