In his newest video, BSO-in-Residence Louis Jones talks with David Kohl and Terri Walter of TRUSTX about #privacy and #trust and how those things affect #BrandSafety: brandsafetyinstitute.com/videos/trustx-…

Sure looks like a competition problem

THIS. ENTIRE. THREAD. READ IT. UNTIL THE PUNCH LINE. Bipartisan antitrust laws being passed. Content moderation, national security, and other manufactured talking points fed by Google and Facebook lobbyists are failing. Next please.

Meta literally made the exact same empty threat before Australia enacted their version of the JCPA. Guess what? Australian news orgs (esp local) are doing better and Meta is doing fine.

Great news for Maria Ressa and journalists everywhere!

ok, let's do this. I've now read all 153 pages of United States vs Google filed earlier today. As I've said earlier, Google is royally screwed. The suit is super well-written building on prior work investigating Google’s market power abuse leveraging advertising technologies. /1

I’d really like to know what CathyMcMorrisRodgers, Senator Ted Cruz, and Senator Amy Klobuchar think of this absurdly unfair bit from Monday's speech by CEO of Google and Facebook’s trade body, IAB. For those who want to have a rational conversation with premium publishers, DCN will be here.👋

This tweet still stands. Grateful for Rep Buck’s work the last few years on tech antitrust and a more competitive market place. Their market power abuses cause downstream harms and distrust across the political spectrum.

Today, I introduced the AMERICA Act to restore and protect competition in digital advertising. The lack of competition in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being extracted from across the economy. lee.senate.gov/2023/3/the-ame…

DCN has enthusiastically endorsed this bill. Here is a 2-minute explainer:

Here is a new two minute explainer on why this matters.

Why is my AMERICA Act so important? Digital Content Next explains:

Great video, they captured the movement.

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META pulling a play from Putin’s playbook. Any shred of credibility META had left is now gone.

EPC welcomes SO against #Google issued today by the European Commission which covers 100% of the concerns we raised in our complaint filed last year epceurope.eu/post/epc-welco…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Facebook on Monday of putting profits over people’s safety during the emergencies created by Canada’s record wildfire season apnews.com/article/canada…

"Right now in an emergency situation, where up-to-date local information is more important than ever, Facebook is putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety, ahead of supporting quality local journalism.”

Kinda ironic for a company that expounds on the value of the open web

While today’s headline will be about the $3.5 billion fine, we are pleased that the Commission also acknowledged that divestiture is the only way to truly address Google’s dominance and conflicts of interest in the adtech marketplace. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…