Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, finds Commission

Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds

An investigation by the European Commission has found that Meta’s “pay or approve” offer to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe does not comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to preliminary findings reported by the regulator on Monday. . The commission wrote in a press release that the binary choice that Meta … Read more

Tribunal finds Cloud Imperium Games discriminated against disabled employee with back-to-office policy

An employment tribunal in the United Kingdom has ordered Citizen Star developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) to pay almost £30,000 ($38,000) in compensation for discriminating against a disabled employee. The studio was taken to court by senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion (the petitioner) after it issued a return-to-office policy that failed to meet his needs as … Read more