It's a great day for antitrust enforcement. Sandeep just released a statement on the DOJ's Live Nation suit.

You can find it here: openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/l…

A passionate discussion and rare #pressfreedom panel that dealt with antitrust & competition policy as a critical response to #BigTech ’s dangerous market concentration, which undermines democracy, security and peace, as OSCE media freedom pointed out, and is replicated & reinforced by AI

google & FB censor news when they switch off news content to avoid laws requiring them to compensate journalists

Time to beef up 'must carry' and 'must pay' regulation.

then media may afford to lower the paywall to stop information becoming a luxury good.
Dr. Courtney Radsch
#IPIWoco

Dr. Courtney Radsch Brilliant session on the dangers of Big Tech.
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'Google calls it 'opting out of news'; It's not, call it what it is 'Censorship', by the world's Trillionaires.
Democracy is paying the price

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Why parrot their talking points? It’s not that they WON’T be able to, they don’t WANT to and know that threatening to withhold voluntary payments, which give them a lot of power + make media orgs susceptible to capture, versus a legal regulatory framework mandating compensation

This is unacceptable behavior from Google.

We're going to address it at our upcoming event with Open Markets Institute & Guardian US on fighting disinformation -- and protecting reliable information (the news!). Join us June 27: journalismliberty.org/publications/f…

The real story: GOO gets to continue making ad money from users reading/watching news on Chrome, but it won't show news on search results. It calls a forum to negotiate a revenue agreement a 'tax' bc it'll cost more than the peanuts $300MM it thought would keep everyone happy.

It also wouldn’t have happened without unfettered theft + privacy violations that stripped publishers, artists, creators of their rights without permission or compensation & guzzled up everyone’s expression & content as if it were there’s for the taking nieman.harvard.edu/articles/the-b…

Great to see a news aggregator company highlight my work on AI and journalism! Thanks for the shout out

The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting. Bespoke, secretive deals with select news orgs aren't replacement for public policy & won't rescue local news from precarity created by firms who skirt laws + enjoy dominant market power niemanreports.org/articles/the-b…

'Bespoke, secretive deals with the largest or most influential news outlets are not a replacement for public policy and will not rescue local news from the precarity created by corporations who skirt the law and enjoy dominant market power.'

The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting & there are lessons to be learned from how news orgs & policy makers handled rise of social media giants niemanreports.org/articles/the-b… cc Charlotte Tobitt Julia Angwin Vivian Schiller Mathew Ingram Digital Content Next Amy Webb 🤷🏻‍♀️ Reuters Institute

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As police swarmed Columbia, its student radio station kept broadcasting. So proud of these (student) journalists. Their account leaves no doubt as to why we need local media, including on campus washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05…

Google’s antitrust trial spotlights search ads on the final day of closing arguments highlights importance of an educated judge who understands adtech, and of having a reporter like Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social in the court helping make sense of it all
digiday.com/media-buying/g…

🆕 #USvGoogle Day 1: A recap of the top moments of closing arguments on Thursday.

As usual, thanks to Tech Policy Press Justin Hendrix for the space and the quick edits 👌🏽

Today is World Press Freedom Day, an annual milestone we should all reflect on. #PressFreedom depends on how we govern competition in digital markets, it’s intertwined with the integrity of our information environment & the future of journalism & democracy journalismliberty.org/publications/w…

Today is a critical moment in our efforts to hold #bigtech accountable for its monopoly of our information ecosystem. Tune into Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social for coverage of today’s closing arguments in the Google Search case