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Turkey bans ads on Twitter, Periscope, Pinterest
Turkey banned social media sites that have failed to hire local representatives from advertising on Jan. 19, according to the Official Gazette.
Last October, a new social media law came into effect in the country which obligates social media sites that are accessed over a million times per day in Turkey to hire a local representative.
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Facebook says starts process of appointing Turkey representative
Facebook Inc said on Jan. 18 it had started the process of appointing a legal entity as a local representative in Turkey in compliance with a new social media law.
Last year, Turkey imposed a fine of 40 million Turkish liras ($5.43 million) on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, for not complying with the law.
Rumble sues Google
The Toronto-based company says Google is sending search queries to its subsidiary YouTube
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Fake news posts under scrutiny
The Hellenic Police (ELAS) have filed more than 10 cases against social media users for posts related to the pandemic and the Covid-19 vaccine since the end of November.
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Parler sues Amazon
Parler is seeking a temporary restraining order to keep Amazon Web Services (AWS) from blackballing Parler
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Online conference on management of EU funds
Greek think tank E-Kyklos is holding an online conference titled "How Can 2021 Be Beneficial?" on Wednesday, on the management of resources from the Next Generation EU fund in light of the report by the experts committee led by Nobel Laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides.
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The wick is still lit
The citizens of a country were justifiably angry with their political system and leadership. But suddenly they felt an unprecedented feeling of liberation. It was fully accepted that you could verbally abuse or even throw a yogurt at a politician. It was no longer taboo. Suddenly you could "meet" other angry fellow citizens and share your anger.
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Ten states sue Google for 'anti-competitive' online ad sales
Ten states on Dec. 16 brought a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of "anti-competitive conduct" in the online advertising industry, including a deal to manipulate sales with rival Facebook.
All Google Services including Youtube Go Down
All Google business services went down globally on 12:00 PM GMT, Gmail, Meets, Calendar, Docs, etc. in addition to Youtube are responding with error code 500.
Google Search and Maps are partially operating, as Google images service from the search-toolbar is down, and searching for a location/address in Maps returns with errors again./adigitalboom.com
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