TNB Tech Minute: FTC Opens Inquiry Into Tech Companies Use of Censorship
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, February 20th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the |
| 0:36.5 | Wall Street Journal. The Federal Trade |
| 0:38.7 | Commission has initiated an inquiry into tech companies' use of censorship. It aims to understand |
| 0:44.2 | how companies decide what content to block users from seeing. The FTC said, |
| 0:49.4 | companies' procedures around deciding what to block can be unpredictable and potentially harm consumers and hurt |
| 0:55.3 | competition, adding that censorship by tech platforms is, quote, potentially illegal. The FTC issued a |
| 1:01.6 | request for information from consumers who would like to publicly comment about platforms limiting |
| 1:06.5 | their ability to share ideas or affiliations, including consumers who've been banned from platforms. |
| 1:12.3 | Alibaba Group has posted its fastest revenue growth since 2023, aided by its artificial intelligence |
| 1:18.4 | strategy. Despite fierce competition and a slowing Chinese economy, the e-commerce company beat |
| 1:24.1 | analysts' estimates and reported a 7.6% rise in third quarter revenue to about |
| 1:29.5 | $38.5 billion. CEO Eddie Wu said the results reflected the substantial progress in Alibaba's |
| 1:37.0 | user-first AI-driven strategies and the resumption of strong growth in its core businesses. |
| 1:43.1 | And analysts have identified Lenovo as a |
| 1:45.8 | key beneficiary of Chinese startup DeepSeaks emergence. The world's largest PC maker plans to |
| 1:51.6 | leverage Deepseek's recent breakthrough to propel growth for its AI-enabled products. |
| 1:57.1 | Lenovo introduced several AI products last year. The PC maker said earlier this week that it has integrated DeepSeek's latest technology into its devices, |
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