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In what is shaping up to be an action-packed term at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices upped the ante Tuesday by granting review in another banner case: Gonzalez v. Google. The case centers on interpretation of a law that has plagued social media users, especially conservatives, for some time by allowing tech giants to ban, promote, alter, or recommend content based on the user’s point of view.

While Big Tech in the United States and China is on the defensive, startups from Grab to GoTo are keeping governments happy by bringing small businesses online and finance to the masses in Indonesia and beyond. That opens a fast lane for growth, but there may be tolls to pay.

Software from Gretel.ai protects data privacy and creates data sets that are still useful for developers to deliver better products and services.

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In Egypt, one of the biggest official newspaper  Al-Ahram positively reported Abbas's ban. “His country’s government—with the cooperation of two of the world’s biggest social media platforms—finally got its way,” writes Jillian C York in her new book, Silicon Values: The future of free speech under surveillance capitalism.  Silicon Values traces the haphazard and chaotic creation of the speech principles that now govern the platforms billions of us use to communicate every day – demonstrating the patchwork influences of governments, campaigners, and the public on the comp...