<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The past few days and weeks have been marked with Platform versus Platform activities. During the same period, as the giants battle it out, we continue to be reminded about the destructive power of open social media. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have a very small Telegram group that welcomes new members to discuss this topic of Billions - <a href="https://t.me/joinchat/Hj1enhgpXjHH-6aYNFnaPg" class="">https://t.me/joinchat/Hj1enhgpXjHH-6aYNFnaPg</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">India summons Facebook over political hate speech controversy </b>21 Aug 2020 - Financial Times</div><div class="">Company to defend itself before parliamentary committee over its handling of extremist political content</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6667c232-0dc2-45ce-b249-53d660e801d3" class="">https://www.ft.com/content/6667c232-0dc2-45ce-b249-53d660e801d3</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">For Facebook, weakening India’s democracy is just the cost of business </b>21 Aug 2020 - Washington Post</div><div class="">It’s clear that Facebook has no intention of holding hate-mongers accountable and that the safety of users is not a priority.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/20/facebook-weakening-indias-democracy-is-just-cost-business/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/20/facebook-weakening-indias-democracy-is-just-cost-business/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Why is Google taking aim at the Australian government with saturation advertising? </b>20 Aug 2020 - The Guardian</div><div class="">Google and Facebook are deeply opposed to the Australian government’s plans to force them to pay media companies for news content.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/20/why-is-google-so-opposed-to-legislation-that-aims-to-support-australian-media-companies" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/20/why-is-google-so-opposed-to-legislation-that-aims-to-support-australian-media-companies</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Why a fight over Fortnite could decide the future of big tech </b>14 Aug 2020 - New Scientist<br class="">Fortnite players have been recruited into a huge anti-competition battle after the game was pulled from the iOS and Android app stores yesterday.<br class=""><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251930-why-a-fight-over-fortnite-could-decide-the-future-of-big-tech/#ixzz6VqEuyBfb" class="">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251930-why-a-fight-over-fortnite-could-decide-the-future-of-big-tech/#ixzz6VqEuyBfb</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite </b></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/freefortnite" class="">https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/freefortnite</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">How Apple uses anti-competitive practices to extort developers and support authoritarian regimes </b>22 June 2020 - Protonmail Blog</div><div class=""><a href="https://protonmail.com/blog/apple-app-store-antitrust/" class="">https://protonmail.com/blog/apple-app-store-antitrust/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Epic’s battle for “open platforms” ignores consoles’ massive closed market 15 Aug - Ars Electronica</b></div><div class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/as-epic-attacks-apple-and-google-it-ignores-the-same-problems-on-consoles/" class="">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/as-epic-attacks-apple-and-google-it-ignores-the-same-problems-on-consoles/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>