In this Scotch & Watch episode, Ricky and Chris talk about the implications of the Google ad tech antitrust decision by Judge Brinkema as well as the Meta antitrust trial.

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We got to the end of week one of FTC v Meta antitrust trial. Ricky and Alan are joined by Brendan Benedict who was sitting in the pews all week and has some fantastic perspective on the trial, the judge and Zuck.

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On April 14, Meta will enter a US antitrust court to face break-up. Ricky and Alan talk about the case - and the implications of having Zuck testify under oath as they attempt to clarify previous statements about the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

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There's an E a G and an O in Google. Might that be why the dumbass search engine decided to get personal with a lawmaker? Uh-oh...

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Ricky and Alan chat with media futurist Erez Levin on the challenges faced by the publishing industry. The ad market is addicted to vanity metrics, but "they are pretty much worthless", says Erez.

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This Scotch and Watch goes deep on Google's EU experiment with the value of news publishers. Ricky Sutton with Chris Duncan.

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Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell discuss the impact of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on News Publishers globally.

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The inside story of how the music labels won on piracy and streaming by partnering, not fighting, and went on to make a fortune... Ricky Sutton enjoys a discussion with Chris Duncan.

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Ricky and Alan speak with Miranda Nagy and Adil Abdulla who are each litigating billions in class action cases against Google on behalf of untold publishers in Australia and Canada respectively. If the U.S. DoJ is looking to fix the Google of the future, then these lawyers are after Google for the crimes of the past.

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In 1985, the Apple scion predicted AI would be achieved when he could ask the philosopher a question and get an answer. So, I tried...

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