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Oct 19 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Remember when Facebook freaked out in australia and blocked all news temporarily causing intentional chaos trying to stop new competition law? That new law is working. Now leaders are sharing these lessons to parliaments globally, including Canada on its new #c18. Brilliant.
This full bit from Ben Scott is super well said here. Parliaments understand better than ever the gatekeeping by the two companies, Google and Facebook, leading into new laws in possibly three major Parliaments this year. #c18
Ultimately Google and Facebook have lost narrative on both data and antitrust. Only their $ can buy influence to slow down legislation. It’s worked in Congress as @SenSchumer @SpeakerPelosi haven’t moved on the major antitrust bills. But Canada, EU and Australia are leading. ❤️
And full disclosure, I testified at the last hearing on this matter. Pay attention y’all. Australia, Canada, EU. The US is next. And it’s ironic the US media press isn’t paying enough attention.
And in case the first tweet didn’t make sense, here is WSJ on Facebook’s chaos delivery as Covid was spiking in Australia. They planned it for more than six months. Campbell Brown’s clearest PR assignment. wsj.com/articles/faceb…

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Oct 18
not often I tweet semantics with u but can’t say FB *did not do* but then “seems to be” including when 2 previously unreliable FB execs say, “appears to be.” Yes entire sequence is dubious. Wire looks bad (now reviewing its work?) but it leaves key questions not answers. 1/5
And no one at FB has come close to clarifying questions about xcheck (including for its own “oversight board”) that surface this level of distrust for a FB priority user framework (not in itself a terrible idea if transparent and supporting civil society). 2/5
eg Flagging Neymar faster for posting harmful content because of his influence is good. Letting him break rules longer because he’s Neymar is very very bad esp if revenge porn. Reporting process by users can also be prioritized but govt officials should be last in line IMHO. 3/5
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Oct 17
Watching @shenan kick off nyc industry conference (@adexchanger). Reed is a longtime leadership voice on improving digital media. Today: “we run ads in places we are proud to run them.” If every marketer took this approach, the world would be much better off. #PROGIO🧵 /1 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Reed gives Google props for delaying deprecation of 3rd party cookie. Reality is G put out misleading research on impact and antitrust + privacy laws are a hornet’s nest for G. Like their shenanigans with rollout of GDPR, it hits at intersection which threatens G’s biz model. /2
Which leads us to session 2, an interview of Google senior exec, Dan Taylor. Lots of laughter from interviewer whether G is bluffing on cookies going away. Sort of nuts with global lawsuits vs Google for abusing industry by leveraging market power on all sides of supply chain. /3
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Oct 5
In other news, three of Facebook’s most senior executives are moving to the UK and Mark Zuckerberg reportedly threatened UK govt in 2018 that FB would pull back on investment if UK didn’t back off on its privacy investigations of Facebook.
Always bring the receipts as @Moonalice tells me. 2/3 cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/08…
And the other one. 3/3 fortune.com/2022/08/03/nic…
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Sep 28
Just arrived home from Ottawa, 🇨🇦 - super trip. Canada is close to passing bill which will rebalance bargaining power between Google, Facebook and the local news media. As with similar code in Australia, both companies will try near everything to stop it. Here is my testimony: /1
I shared 5 points:
1) will help rebalance bargaining power
2) relies on market rather than govt for terms protecting news independence
3) applies only to situation of significant power imbalance (eg Google, Facebook) /2
4) it’s BS that it will harm the internet or act as a tax on links (more on that shortly)
5) pubs can collectively bargain which is what in Australia allowed small pubs to generate more $ per journalist than larger ones /3
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Sep 27
Had honor of testifying to US Congress, FTC, Parliaments around globe (Canada, EU, UK, Ireland, France, Australia, Germany) regarding duopoly of Google and Facebook’s stranglehold on advertising through gatekeeping and an unbridled harvesting of data. Today back in Ottawa 🇨🇦. /1
My consistent message over years has been there is a massive imbalance in bargaining power for consumers and publishers. This gatekeeping, needs to be curbed as they lower the bar on privacy as rest of market attempts to compete and consumers expectations are violated. /2
The most acute concern in my role and for democracy has been funding of news brands, particularly local news. Australia passed a code that’s reported to have brought $200mil+ into news and journalism, particularly small, local news outlets. Canada is next. That’s why I’m here. /3
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Sep 23
Watching strong testimony to Canadian Parliament in support of #BillC18 from news industry and former Australian competition commissioner who studied and rolled out very similar law and has seen it work firsthand to balance bargaining power for news press small and large. /1
Rod Sims has since produced a report on the results in Australia which compel Google and Facebook to negotiate with press small and large. This is the bill which FB pulled news from its service and WSJ reported intentionally caused chaos to try to disrupt its evential passing. /2
Very few people have Google and Facebook’s back in trying to stop the Canadian bill. Even less than in Australia. The same people show up spreading misinformation suggesting the bills “tax links” or incentivize “click bait” - this is simply untrue. /3
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