When the Canadian parliament passed the benignly named Online News Act this summer, its goal was to ensure “fair revenue sharing between digital platforms and news outlets,” according to a government summary of the legislation. In effect, the law requires search engines and social media giants to “engage in a bargaining process — and binding arbitration,…
When the Canadian parliament passed the benignly named Online News Act this summer, its goal was to ensure “fair revenue sharing between digital platforms and news outlets,” according to a government summary of the legislation. In effect, the law requires search engines and social media giants to “engage in a bargaining process — and binding arbitration,…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Farewell, Twitter, said Oliver Darcy at CNN. This week, “the text-based social media platform that played an outsize role in society by serving as a digital town square was killed by its unhinged owner, Elon Musk.” Musk officially changed the company’s iconic…
The Twitter era has essentially ended after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, rebranded the company as X, nixing the iconic blue bird in the process. For some critics, Musk has been the harbinger of death for the social media platform since acquiring it in 2022. In his quest to remake Twitter into a free speech haven, Musk…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Farewell, Twitter, said Oliver Darcy at CNN. This week, “the text-based social media platform that played an outsize role in society by serving as a digital town square was killed by its unhinged owner, Elon Musk.” Musk officially changed the company’s iconic…