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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Finally, the UK’s online safety bill gets its day in Parliament – here’s what you need to know

The government’s proposed legislation seeks to keep children safe from harmful content and hold tech CEOs accountable. Can it?

Underwhelming and unsurprising. Those were the words Molly Russell’s father used to describe the response of Meta, Pinterest and Snap to a series of recommendations from the coroner who presided over the inquest into his daughter’s death.

The online safety bill, which is debated in the UK parliament today (Tuesday) before moving to the House of Lords, has long been the focus of internet safety campaigners’ hopes, not industry self-reform.

China is moving to take “golden shares” in local units of Alibaba and Tencent, the tech giants, in the latest attempt to impose greater control over the country’s big tech firms.

Meta is set to announce its decision on whether to reinstate Donald Trump to Facebook and Instagram. As one online safety campaigner says, the former president’s behaviour and language have got worse since his 2021 suspension.

Twitter is offering free advertising in a bid to woo back companies to the platform.

Universities in the US are changing how they teach as ChatGPT causes alarm among academics.

The failed crypto exchange FTX has recovered more than $5bn but the extent of customer losses in its collapse is still unknown.

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