(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 15, 2019 a man holds a smartphone with the logo of social network Facebook in Nantes, western France. - Winning back trust is seen as the key priority for Facebook as the world's biggest social network readies its financial update on the final months of 2018 on January 30, 2019. Facebook is looking to rebound from a horrific year marked by a series of scandals over data protection and privacy, and concerns that it had been manipulated by foreign interests for political purposes. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
The UK should tackle the power of Silicon Valley over Britain’s news publishers and push US tech giants to promote quality journalism, according to a report commissioned by the government to assess remedies for the struggling local press.
Companies like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc should be obliged to nudge readers towards quality journalism, according to the Cairncross Review, published Feb 11.
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