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If It Really Wants To Restore Debate, Facebook Should Update Its Ad Policy Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new “privacy-focused” direction for the company that, while sounding great in theory, also set off several alarm bells—including concerns about competition as the company moves to make its messaging properties indistinguishable from one another. As usual for Zuckerberg, it’s all frying pans and fires: just a few days later, it seemed the company had accidentally-on-purpose picked a fight with one leading competition critic — Senator and Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren — by deleting Facebook ads, placed by her campaign, that advocated breaking up the platform. Facebook has since restored the ads , and clarified that they were removed solely because they violated policies against the use of the company’s trademarks in advertising on the platform. The company’s advertising platform policy prohibits advertisers from  “represent[ing] the Face...

Even the Rightsholders Think Europe’s Article 13 is a Mess, Call for an Immediate Halt in Negotiations With only days to go before the planned conclusion of the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market, Europe’s largest and most powerful rightsholder groups — from the Premier League to the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Association of Commercial Television in Europe — have published an open letter calling for a halt to negotiations , repeating their message from late last year : namely, that the Directive will give the whip hand to Big Tech. Article 13 — which still mandates copyright filters for big platforms, despite months of obfuscation — is the brainchild of the music recording industry, who invented the idea of the “value gap” as a synonym for “when we negotiate with YouTube for music licenses, we don’t get as much as we’d like.” Seen in this light, the unworkability of Article 13 is a feature, not a bug. Putting Google on the hook to give in on...