Business developments read for their policy consequences: platform and publisher earnings, advertising expenditure shifts, acquisitions under regulatory review, disclosed lobbying spending, and the compliance costs firms report. Analysis connects a company's financial position to the positions it takes in consultations. For analysts, journalists and policy professionals.
A consent decree binds a company to court-supervised conduct for decades, and the Facebook order of 2019 shows both the reach and the limits of the instrument.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 28, 2026
A 2026 FEC rule sets the legal floor for who must be named as an ad's payor online — and platform policies like Google's verification system go well beyond it, with their own gaps.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 22, 2026
While OpenAI struck flat-fee licensing deals, Perplexity built a per-use revenue-sharing program — a different theory of the publisher relationship, still unproven at scale.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 10, 2026
Meta, TikTok and YouTube each publish detailed content-moderation numbers, but their headline metrics measure different things, and no regulator currently requires a shared standard.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 10, 2026
Microsoft built one of the largest news audiences on earth without employing reporters, then spent a decade dismantling it — a case study in what happens when traffic is infrastructure you rent rather than own.
Aleksandr Komarov · July 18, 2026