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Planet Business: Mark Zuckerberg’s watch, Michael Barr’s pre-emptive move and possible successors to Justin Trudeau

Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts

It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X

Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’

Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers

European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections

Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch

Investor Charlie Songhurst, Exor chief executive John Elkann also join board

Eight tech giants now hold combined market capitalisation of almost $19trn

Former Lib Dem leader has been replaced by a Republican ally as tech sector races to appease the president-elect

Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals

Move comes just ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House

Nick Clegg contacted Simon Harris in the summer and also met him in Dublin in December

Lesson of the 20th century was that when a critical mass of citizens feel the system is rigged against them, we encourage radical politics

Planet Business: Instagram advertising forecast, Chrystia Freeland’s resignation and the highest-paid female sports stars

But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas

As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US

Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally

Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences

Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness

Regulators request information after FT investigation intopartnership that skirted search giant’s rules on minors

Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’

Omnicom and Interpublic in talks to merge in $30bn-plus deal to create the world’s largest advertising agency

Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting ByteDance-owned video app over security concerns

In conversation with US ambassador to Ireland in Dublin, Clegg said AI discussion had dwelled on ‘largely nonsensical fears’

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

Gabriel Makhlouf raises prospect of ‘sharp’ fall in stocks prices amid heightened technology sector valuations

Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn

JP Morgan sanguine as rising share prices are accompanied by increased earnings among dominant ‘magnificent seven’

Party’s online spending has significantly decreased over the course of the general election campaign, new figures show

General election Meta ads complaint made over information delay

Hard line on conduct could prevent bigger lapses but may prompt claims of disguised cost savings

Scanned, handwritten PDFs spread across multiple institutions is not acceptable in 2024 and does not enable accountability

Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m

The rise of smartphones and social networking apps has forever changed social norms around how we communicate

Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says

As companies from Amazon to Citi overhaul management, experts warn that savings from job cuts can be overtaken by unintended consequences

Coimisiún na Meán said that the three companies would have to take specific measures to protect their services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content

Plaintiffs are suing their former employers and Facebook/Meta claiming they suffered serious psychological injuries

Investors are notoriously fickle – will they give big firms the space to utilise artificial intelligence?