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Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday.

Twitter said Friday that it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change.

Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday.

Google plans to invest $9.5 billion and create at least 12,000 new jobs in the United States in 2022, FOX Business has learned.

YouTube has blocked Russia's DumaTV.

Google has yanked dozens of apps from its Google Play store after determining that they include a software element that surreptitiously harvests data.

The Justice Department Monday endorsed legislation forbidding large digital platforms such as Amazon and Google from favoring their own products and services over those of competitors.

Google said Thursday that it is now pausing the “vast majority" of commercial activities in Russia after announcing last week that Google ads would be suspended in the country over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Google is working alongside other organizations "to source helpful humanitarian information as the situation unfolds."

The company said it had taken the action of globally disabling the Google Maps traffic layer and live information on how busy places like stores and restaurants are in Ukraine for the safety of local communities in the country, after consulting with sources including regional authorities.

Russia and the West are pressuring tech companies to respond to the conflict in Ukraine.

After years of enticing employees with large stock awards and surging share prices, some giant technology companies are employing a new tool: cash.

Several large online publishers are taking steps to abandon a program from Alphabet Inc.’s Google that was billed as a way to optimize readers’ mobile-browsing experience, saying it generates less advertising revenue.

Google is launching an initiative that they say will help more than 20,000 Americans with job training and placement through its $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund.

Former Google chief Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have committed $125 million to a project aimed at advancing artificial intelligence while preparing for unintended consequences the technology could bring

Google said Wednesday that it plans to develop more privacy-focused replacements for the alphanumeric identifiers associated with individual smartphones that some apps use to gather and share information about users.

Workers in their 20s are leading efforts to unionize in the U.S.

An ethics watchdog is using shareholder activism to try to pry information about whether the Biden administration has been essentially outsourcing censorship to Google and YouTube. 

Google is launching a bipartisan effort to provide tools to train candidates and campaign workers in ways to “stay safe online” ahead of the 2022 midterm election cycle.

Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner said on Monday it was suing Alphabet-owned Google for about 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion), the latest firm to take legal action alleging the search giant manipulated search results.