{"id":74871,"date":"2019-02-18T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=74871"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:43:20","slug":"disinformation-and-fake-news-report-published-says-facebook-behaves-like-digital-gangsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=74871","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation and \u2018Fake News\u2019: Report Published.  Says Facebook Behaves Like &#8220;Digital Gangsters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK&#8230;.From the UK Parliament&#8217;s report where they say Facebook acts like \u2018digital gangsters\u2019&#8230;&#8221;The Competitions and Market Authority (CMA) should conduct a comprehensive audit of the operation of the advertising market on social media. The Committee made this recommendation its interim report, and we are pleased that it has also been supported in the independent Cairncross Report commissioned by the government and published in February 2019. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1791.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fakenewsreport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"703\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fakenewsreport.jpg 602w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fakenewsreport-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fakenewsreport-570x666.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Full Report is Above<\/p>\n<p>Given the contents of the Six4Three documents that we have published, it should also investigate whether Facebook specifically has been involved in any anti-competitive practices and conduct a review of Facebook\u2019s business practices towards other developers, to decide whether Facebook is unfairly using its dominant market position in social media to decide which businesses should succeed or fail. We hope that the Government will include these considerations when it reviews the UK\u2019s competition powers in April 2019, as stated in the Government response to our Interim Report. Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like \u2018digital gangsters\u2019 in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK&#8230;.From the UK Parliament&#8217;s report where they say Facebook acts like \u2018digital gangsters\u2019&#8230;&#8221;The Competitions and Market Authority (CMA) should conduct a comprehensive audit of the operation of the advertising market on social media. The Committee made this recommendation its interim report, and we are pleased that it has also been supported in the independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fakenewsreport.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}