Now it’s Twitter’s turn. The Israeli government said today that it would take “legal action” against Twitter for “ignoring repeated requests to remove online content that was inciting or supportive of terrorism,” according to Bloomberg. Justice minister Ayelet Shaked was referencing accounts and content created by Hamas and Hezbollah, among others. She added that terrorist […]
In ruling on a motion for summary judgment in federal court in New York, Judge Katherine Forrest found that embedding a tweet containing a copyrighted photo (of Tom Brady) could create liability for copyright infringement. The case, Goldman vs. Breitbart, is still in process and cannot be appealed until final, but the judge’s ruling has potentially
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Consumer packaged goods maker Unilever, an advertising force with a $9.8 billion annual marketing budget, is ringing the alarm bells that all is still not well in the environments fostered by the likes of Google and Facebook. Unilever Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed spoke about the need for platforms to regain consumer trust
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By Eric Shumsky and Mel Bostwick Chances are you’ve spent a lot of time in the cloud recently. If you’ve checked your Gmail account, saved a document to Dropbox, messaged your colleagues on Slack, streamed a Spotify playlist, or watched the latest Netflix show, you’re there. The data for those services—your emails, your playlists, your
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