Notícias

Tech giants struggle to stem ‘infodemic’ of false coronavirus claims

THE GUARDIAN – 10/04/2020

Julia Carrie Wong

Click over to Google, type in “coronavirus”, and press enter.
The results you see will bear little resemblance to any other search.
There are no ads, no product recommendations, and no links to websites that have figured out how to win the search engine optimisation game. Government, NGO and mainstream media sources dominate.

Politics and Policy in the Age of Pandemic

NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE – 09/04/2020

Lobbying firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas today released an analysis of how the novel coronavirus pandemic will impact policy and politics in the coming months and years, “Politics & Policy in the Age of Pandemic.” The analysis, prepared by Bruce Mehlman, looks at the country’s preparedness leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, how the public health crisis could affect the 2020 election, and what the political landscape might look like in the months and years after the election. Mehlman also offers five recommendations for leaders going forward, as well as reasons to feel optimism.

Google Ordered to Pay for News in French Antitrust Crackdown

BLOOMBERG – 09/04/2020

Gaspard Sebag

Google was ordered by French antitrust regulators to pay publishers to display snippets of their articles after years of helping itself to excerpts for its own news service.
The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc. unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their content. 

Media Groups Call on Congress to Support Local News, Local Media Amid Coronavirus Crisis

NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE – 09/04/2020

Today, four national media organizations representing thousands of local newspapers and local broadcast media outlets – the News Media Alliance, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), National Newspaper Association (NNA) and America’s Newspapers – jointly called on Congress to provide critical support to local news media in its next stimulus bill designed to provide relief to businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. In its summary document, the organizations specifically call for Congress to ensure the ability of local media to seek relief under the Paycheck Protection Program and to fund federal advertising spending on local media through directing current U.S. government advertising campaigns to local news and media outlets, and providing the Department of Health and Human Services, the Small Business Administration and other relevant agencies with an additional $5-10 billion for direct funding for local media advertising that would be evenly distributed to local media in communities of all sizes.

O Vale do Silício e a pandemia

O ESTADO DE S.PAULO E O GLOBO – 10/04/2020

PEDRO DORIA 

As aparições de Andrew Cuomo, governador de Nova York, têm ganhado algum destaque na imprensa brasileira — e na do resto do mundo. É, afinal, um contraste importante em relação ao presidente americano Donald Trump. Mas, lá, Cuomo não é o único chamando atenção no combate ao novo coronavírus. Na verdade, existe um que por lá já chamava desde antes. É Gavin Newsom, 52, governador da Califórnia. E esta é uma história que tem tudo a ver com o Vale do Silício.

França manda Google negociar taxa com mídia

FOLHA DE S.PAULO – 10/04/2020

A Autoridade da Concorrência francesa mandou, nesta quinta (9), o Google negociar “de boa-fé” com editoras e agências de imprensa francesas uma taxa pelo uso de seus conteúdos, garantida por um mecanismo europeu que visa garantir o pagamento de conteúdo digital.