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Taxing gatekeepers~II

Unlike conventional advertising, digital advertising increases impact by individualising ads while also reducing businesses’ advertising costs. Nobel Laureates Acemoglu and Johnson are not the first to suggest a tax on revenues from digital ads.

Taxing gatekeepers~I

By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.

Is Facebook paying for its many sins?

As McCardle describes it, the fact that Facebook operates on Apple phones means that it has built a house on someone else’s land. Apple, which owns that land, now wants Facebook off its property. Facebook, it seems, has not yet found a solution to this conundrum. There are many people who will be cheering at Facebook’s loss and hoping that it is the harbinger of its declining power, even if it still boasts almost 2 billion users a day.

Chinar Corps’ Facebook, Instagram handles blocked

The two handles were created by the strategically important 15 Corps to counter and negate propaganda unleashed from across the border and to apprise the people of the real situation in the Kashmir Valley.