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When companies are hit by activists, managers of competitors may fear that their company’s reputation would suffer if their turn comes next.
Meta’s just-launched Business Agent could mark a major shift in how companies of all sizes deal with customers. But what are the trade-offs?
Social apps like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook are designed to be addictive. What would they look like if we removed the worst features?
Success will rely significantly on parents’ abilities – and children’s willingness – to engage with these new tools.
Government and tech firms need to step up.
This shift is a clear reversal of Meta’s privacy-first posture, which Mark Zuckerberg announced back in 2019.
The News Media Bargaining Code was world-leading. The government’s new plan, the News Bargaining Incentive, will build on past progress to protect journalism.
The government’s latest attempt to make big companies pay for the journalism that bolsters their profits has benefits, but also risks.
Business culture has long embraced grit as a winning value. But modern examples show that companies will do better if they acknowledge mistakes quickly and pivot.
Three ways to think about AI, massive job cuts, and the future of work.
Big Tech is facing a ‘Big Tobacco’ moment. To regulate social media effectively, we need to understand the teenage brain.
If Meta moves forward with plans to integrate facial recognition technologies into its AI-enabled smart glasses, some of us have more to lose than others.
The jury in Los Angeles delivered a stinging verdict, but its long-term impact on platforms is hard to predict.
The case was the first of its kind. But it won’t be the last.
For some companies, ‘illegal with a fine’ is interpreted as ‘legal for a price’.
Canada urgently needs stronger privacy laws, ones that deal explicitly with facial recognition.
Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.
There have been six key shifts – and no doubt more is to come.
The slight decrease in diversity in corporate boardrooms in 2025 comes as the Trump administration and its allies have pushed to unwind diversity initiatives.
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