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April 9, 2026
A jury is about to decide the fate of Ticketmaster
Consumer complaints about Ticketmaster are so voluminous at state attorneys general offices that Pennsylvania's comes with an explicit plea for residents lodging a grievance about the company to be...
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April 2, 2026
Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public
It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about wh...
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April 1, 2026
The Trump administration’s antitrust honeymoon is over
"It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business." That quote was first delivered by mob boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather, but last Monday, it became the title of a speech by the Justice Dep...
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March 31, 2026
OkCupid settles claims it shared user photos with a facial recognition company
Dating app OkCupid agreed to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived millions of users by sharing their photos with a third-party facial recognition company without their c...
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March 26, 2026
Brendan Carr says his broadcast license threat wasn’t really about Iran war coverage
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr never meant to threaten broadcast licenses over their coverage of the war in Iran, he told reporters after an event hosted by FGS and Semafor. "...
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March 25, 2026
Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
The jury in a landmark trial testing claims about social media addiction against Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube determined that the two companies failed to warn users about the risks of usin...
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March 25, 2026
Senate Democrats are trying to ‘codify’ Anthropic’s red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon is expanding to Congress. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is working on a new bill to "codify" Anthropic's red lines and ensure humans make the ultimate decisions in que...
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March 24, 2026
Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides
Meta willfully violated New Mexico law by misleading users about the safety of its products and engaging in an unconscionable trade practice, a jury found. The company will face a $375 million pena...
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March 24, 2026
Meta’s reckoning over kids safety is in the hands of two juries
Two juries are currently deliberating a series of cases that could either usher in a legal reckoning for Meta, or maintain the status quo in an uphill battle to impose changes or penalties on tech ...
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March 18, 2026
Congress considers blowing up internet law
Internet platforms' liability shield Section 230 faced another round of attack at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, this time with two distinct undercurrents complicating the conver...
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March 17, 2026
The Live Nation trial restarts with a ‘velvet hammer’
After a chaotic week following the Justice Department's mid-trial settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, the antitrust trial picked back up surprisingly smoothly on Monday - this time, with doze...
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March 13, 2026
States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues Monday
The Live Nation-Ticketmaster trial is back on. Dozens of states are expected to move forward with their claims against the company's alleged concert industry monopoly beginning on Monday, following...
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March 12, 2026
What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court
Around a dozen parents huddled in the dim hallway outside the courtroom in February, nervously gripping paper tickets. They were glaring at a gray tote bag held by a member of the court staff - the...
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March 11, 2026
The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled
Instead of moving forward with a jury trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster as expected, the Justice Department announced a settlement Monday that omitted what used to be on the top of its wish li...
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March 10, 2026
Listen to the Live Nation CEO’s alleged threats to a concert venue
Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the Justice Department reached a settlement w...
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March 10, 2026
States’ trial against Live Nation could move forward as soon as next week
The Live Nation trial is not over yet. Several states look to be headed to trial on their own as soon as Monday unless they hash out a settlement in the next few days. On Tuesday, a day after the J...
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March 9, 2026
Live Nation settles government antitrust suit — that probably doesn’t include a breakup
On Monday, Live Nation-Ticketmaster agreed to settle a federal antitrust lawsuit with the Department of Justice. Eight states so far have indicated they plan to join the settlement, a district atto...
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March 9, 2026
How Live Nation allegedly terrorized the concert industry
SeatGeek was close to a deal that would bring its ticketing business to the next level. The company was in negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys, aiming to take over first-party sales at its stadium...
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March 5, 2026
Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?
John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existin...
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March 3, 2026
Does Ticketmaster have a stranglehold on concert ticketing — or is it just ‘bringing joy’?
In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopo...
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February 26, 2026
FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages
The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children's online privacy law against certain websites that collect ...
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February 23, 2026
Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?
In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer - just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year's biggest anti-monopoly cases in court. Antitrust Division ...
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February 19, 2026
The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it
Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including te...
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February 19, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who'd come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with ...
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February 18, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg is taking the stand as social media goes on trial
Lori Schott didn't care what it took to haul her way from her small town in Eastern Colorado to show up to a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday. "I don...
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February 14, 2026
A powerful tool of resistance is already in your hands
In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun...
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February 12, 2026
Top DOJ antitrust enforcer is out weeks before Live Nation trial
Gail Slater, the top antitrust enforcer at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that she has left her post, just weeks before the agency's next major tech monopoly trial against entertainment...
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February 10, 2026
New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators
At the center of a consequential case about social media liability is a key question: did Meta lie or mislead the public about the safety of its platform, while knowing something very different? Th...
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February 9, 2026
FCC accused of withholding DOGE information ‘in bad faith’
One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the ag...
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February 8, 2026
Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make...
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