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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.

Facebook removes Rahul Gandhi’s post for policy violation

Last week, NCPCR had asked Facebook to take appropriate action against Gandhi's Instagram profile over violation of provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, the POCSO Act, 2012, and the Indian Penal Code, and demanded the removal of the video from the platform.