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France resumes tax on tech giants, seeks deal with US
The tax brought about €400 million to the French budget last year, but the government agreed to suspend it in 2020, in exchange for an American promise to drop the tariff threat pending talks on an international deal on taxing online companies.
World News
‘Informational chaos’: Proposals made to regulate social media
"Lies laced with anger and hate spread faster and further than the boring facts of news," says the Forum on Information & Democracy, which has laid out 250 ways social media companies can be regulated to tackle a growing threat to democracy.
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Explained: Social networks face backlash over misinformation methods
The decision by Facebook and Twitter to restrict a controversial article by the New York Post on Joe Biden has opened a wider debate about how social media companies tackle misinformation.
Twitter has since reversed a decision to block access to the article.