The US Justice Department has asked a federal court to force Google to sell Chrome,its popular web browser – a move that could reshape competition on the internet.
Twenty-five years ago,Google’s minimalist search engine was a revelation. What would happen if the US government moved to break up its dominance?
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models,as users can in the EU.
Albanese has vowed to protect Australian sovereignty,while others in the government confirmed the plans for reforms on copyright,payments,content and online safety.
The European Commission sees evidence of “motivated malicious actors” using X’s blue ticks to deceive users. Musk fires back,claiming that the EC offered his company “an illegal secret deal”.
If there’s one thing that unites an otherwise bitterly divided Washington,it’s China. But Donald Trump has just stirred the pot.
Australia used new laws to gain a world-first insight into how social media giants respond to child abuse material – and found a culture of “wilful blindness”
The federal government is considering whether it should use landmark laws to force tech platforms such as YouTube and TikTok to negotiate with news outlets.
The imprisonment of Xiao Jianhua brings to an end a long-running saga that has seen many of the tycoon’s business interests reined in since he was seized in Hong Kong more than five years ago.
This wasn’t the 2022 that Xi Jinping had in mind.
The Coalition party room has no shortage of MPs with first-hand or family experience of how toxic social media can be. Now the government is making cleaning up the internet part of its pitch to voters.