The New Law on Targeted Advertising

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One of the major achievements of this new legislation is that it'll force platforms like twitrer or gogo or facebook to tell regulators what is it exactly that they are doing to tackle faknes or misinformation. Hovier espinoza: There was a huge push here by politicians to trybanthis completely. Of course, google and faswer pushed back aggressively. And if you are going to completely band this practice, you would also hurting local businesses.

Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more aggressively after approving a major piece of legislation, and Sri Lanka is working with the major multilateral agencies on ways to salvage the country from the current economic meltdown

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EU approves groundbreaking new rules to police Big Tech

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UN asks Sri Lanka to negotiate ‘debt-for-nature’ swaps to ease economic meltdown

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