Google & Facebook’s collusion; a darker side to Roblox; Microsoft acquires Activision, & the UK’s anti-Encryption campaign

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#1) CEOs of Google and Facebook accused of price-fixing in the digital ad space they dominate

Digital Advertising is a $350 billion global market. And it is dominated by two players: Alphabet/Google and MetaFacebook.

Instead of the two BigTech giants of the digital advertising complex slugging it out toe to toe, driving down prices and continuously trying to outdo each other, it seems that they have been secretly colluding to favour each other.

The details of the collusion were revealed when documents were unsealed by order of a US court. The documents include emails about the secret deal between Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of MetaFacebook, and…