EU Regulation Tightens Around Tech Giants as Ireland Balances Digital Power and Tax Politics

Alphabet's Google has fundamentally altered its spam policy across the European Economic Area to avert an antitrust fine under the Digital Markets Act, effective from August 30. The policy, which targeted "parasite SEO" — third-party pages exploiting a host site's search rankings — was found by EU monitoring to unfairly demote news media and publisher content. The EU Commission confirmed that the change came after regulators opened a DMA...