Media
Axel Springer, Politico, and USA TODAY: Palantir's Expanding Newsroom Client List
Behavioral profiling used to be something the ad tech vendor did on the other side of the glass. Now it's a line item in the publisher's own growth strategy.
Australia Finalizes Its Plan to Force Tech Platforms To Pay News Media
Meta calls it a discriminatory tax. The White House calls it extortion.
Jim Jordan Fights UK Plan to Force Legacy Media Into Feeds
Jim Jordan warns UK DCMS plan forcing YouTube, Facebook and TikTok to promote BBC news threatens free speech.
How Britain Plans to Lock Legacy Media Into People’s Feeds
The public spent years drifting away from legacy broadcasters, so the state plans to algorithmically drag them back.
Larry Sanger Said Wikipedia Punishes Dissent. Then It Banned Him.
He co-founded the encyclopedia in 2001 and now he can’t edit a single page of it.
Turkey Silenced Its Oldest Paper. It Took One Unnamed Post.
A paper that has printed since 1924 changed its own name this week to stay one step ahead of a court order.
Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
The regulators who would decide what counts as “reliable” news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same politicians whose coverage they’d be curating.
Canada’s Pay-to-Play Press Pass
The government built a press pass out of a tax form and the prime minister’s office helped decide who got one.
Australia Wants To Force Big Tech to Pay Legacy Media
The planned law privileges the biggest publishers.
FTC Settlement: Ad Agencies Agree to Stop “Brand Safety” Collusion to Defund Media Outlets
The agencies literally quoted Fight Club rules to keep their $81 billion blacklist quiet.
US State Dept Settles Free Speech Suppression Lawsuit
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.
SCOTUS Rejects Citizen Journalist’s Case Against Officials Who Arrested Her for Asking Police Questions
The Supreme Court’s silence left standing a legal framework where asking a government official a question can land a journalist in handcuffs, with no one responsible for putting them there.