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January 6 Committee subpoenas social media companies

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol has issued four subpoenas to social media companies, demanding documents “relating to the spread of misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, domestic violent extremism, and foreign influence in the 2020 election.”

Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive fines

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants.

Google strikes Cloud deal and invests in CME

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG +0.72% Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME CME +0.99% Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company’s core trading systems to the cloud.

An 'eraser button': Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech

Lawmakers are getting creative as they introduce a slew of bills intended to take Big Tech down a peg. One bill proposes an "eraser button" that would let parents instantly delete all personal information collected from their children or teens.