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Ireland's data regulator fined TikTok €345 million over children's accounts
The September 2023 decision targeted public-by-default settings for under-18s, and its remedy is design change rather than a payment alone.
Colin Reyes
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News on the governance of information: bills introduced and amended, agency decisions and guidance, platform policy updates and product changes with policy effects, court filings, and newly published transparency data. Items state the stage reached and the next procedural step. For people who need to know before a rule takes effect.
Current developments in media policy: bills introduced, agency decisions, platform policy updates, court filings and transparency report releases.
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What the EU's content-moderation database actually discloses, and what it doesn't
The DSA Transparency Database logs every platform takedown across the bloc in near-real time. Researchers say its categories are too vague to show what's really being removed.
Colin Reyes
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AI citations now exist at scale — and the referral math still doesn't work
Zero-click searches reached 68 percent in early 2026 while AI referrals stay under one percent of publisher pageviews: the citation is becoming real, and the click is not coming back.
Colin Reyes
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TikTok became a mainstream news source while newsrooms were arguing about it
Pew now counts 43 percent of under-30 Americans regularly getting news on TikTok — up from 9 percent in 2020 — with the platform's influencer economy doing the explaining.
Colin Reyes
Media News
Advertisers are drifting back to X — at prices and volumes far below the old Twitter
Filings put X's ad revenue around 1.8 billion dollars in 2025, up from 1.7 billion but well under its pre-takeover peak, and the returning spend is concentrated in performance formats rather than brand budgets.
Gabriela Montoya