{"id":122473,"date":"2017-12-04T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122473"},"modified":"2017-12-04T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:38:25","slug":"the-accc-is-investigating-facebook-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122473-the-accc-is-investigating-facebook-and-google","title":{"rendered":"The ACCC is investigating Facebook and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/media-release\/accc-commences-inquiry-into-digital-platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>has been instructed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to commence an inquiry into digital platform providers such as Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n<p>The ACCC\u2019s inquiry will look at the effect that digital search engines, social media platforms, and digital content aggregators have on competition in media and advertising services markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will examine whether platforms are exercising market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of consumers, media content creators, and advertisers,\u201d said the ACCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACCC will look closely at longer-term trends and the effect of technological change on competition in media and advertising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACCC is expected to produce a preliminary report by December 2018, with a final report due in June 2019.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/240294-datally-googles-app-to-save-mobile-data-in-south-africa.html\">Datally \u2013 Google\u2019s app to save mobile data in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)\u00a0has been instructed\u00a0to commence an inquiry into digital platform providers such as Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":101568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12091,15725],"class_list":["post-122473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-australia","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}