The Big Tech Playbook

We’re letting algos rewrite how children learn about intimacy

#367: An ex-Meta director reveals the truth about how Meta trains its AI, including flirting with children, and glorifying violence...

Aug 18 •

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Kelly Stonelake

How antitrust regulators intend to sell of Google's ad tech

#336: A step-by-step guide to how regulators plan to sell and share the ad tech tools that Google used to build a $1.7 trillion illegal monopoly...

May 28 •

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DoJ targets Google's AI as it winds up break-up demands

#319: Regulators urge the judge to ban Google from using its cash to buy scale for Gemini, forcing it to earn its default position...

Apr 30 •

Nine lessons and a winning outcome from Meta divorce

#278. This post is about tough truths, calling out failures, naming names, and flagging a path forward after news failed Australia's Big Tech test...

Feb 28 •

Business Insider and Time pose new visions for AI news

Plus, big changes at the GNI, Apple's Great Wall of China, the Aussie selling Google, bros take over regulation, YouTube hikes prices, and more...

Dec 17, 2024 •

What news can learn from a pro Big Tech negotiator

Google signed on for $100 million, but Meta banned news in Canada. Here are some lessons from the man who led the news industry's fight...

Dec 5, 2024 •

I won't let news make Meta users unhappy

Zuckerberg has pivoted from a local news supporter to banning headlines, but he says he's following a societal shift away from news' angry agenda...

Oct 12, 2024 •

Payback time for publishing as Google goes on parole

The US Government has revealed the penalties it wants, which could kill AI Overviews, reset copyright, and expose Google's innermost secrets...

Oct 10, 2024 •

Google's witness factory prompts a DoJ blast

The antitrust trial drowned in Google Kool Aid yesterday as paid witnesses sought to paint it as a friend of everyday folk...

Sep 27, 2024 •

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Step-by-step, how Google demolished publisher ads

The deadliest predators run silent and run deep, but every now and again, they pop above the surface and into the light of day...

Sep 24, 2024 •

The deal that made Google a trillionaire paperboy

Court hears how Google's purchase of DoubleClick on Friday the Thirteenth 2007 turned out to be extremely bad luck for the news industry...

Sep 10, 2024 •

History will judge Google as it heads to antitrust decider

The tech giant finds itself under siege, a marauding army at the gates, but win or lose, the era of news and advertising as we know it is ending...

Sep 4, 2024 •

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