News/media suffer from people's disinterest. EU regulation is killing innovation, including AI 🔐 #WEEKLY ~ July 2nd

Canada has made a run with bigtech. AI is killing the web with spam sites. Mastodon is still on shaky ground. Musk has turned Twitter into a walled garden.

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The "passive news consumer" is on the rise. There are fewer and fewer people commenting and engaging. Reuters Digital News Report 2023: 22% of news consumers actively participate through posts or comments, down 11 percentage points from 2018; 47% do not participate at all (NiemanLab)

The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest proposal of the European Freedom of the Media Act, which would allow national security agencies to place spyware on journalists' phones.  Odsouzení je založené na Článku 4, bod 2, odst c.  (The Guardian)

Some Nigerian officials have expressed concern that Chinese-backed super-applications PalmPay and OPay are gaining popularity and that Huawei's 5G devices are dominating the country. Dominate and rule, a new era of colonialism and part of China's tactics for years. (Financial Times)