None of the Labor politicians who have appeared with controversial YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks have condemned racist language he used about a senior Nationals MP.
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced it has formalised payments from Google and Facebook.
The amount the media giant is receiving from the tech giants is not public, but News Corp Australia’s executive chairman Michael Miller confirmed the deals were now complete.
The company said it would be investing in local and regional journalism, in response to willingness by Australians to pay for “hyper-local news,” Miller said.
News Corp has confirmed it has formalised payments from Google and Facebook, following agreements made by Australia’s major publishers in March of this year.
The announcement comes following the signing by the Australian government of the controversial media bargaining code into law on February 25, which requires tech firms to pay news publishers.
But Crawley, who also edited the Newcastle Journal between 1979 and 1987, has some strikingly new ideas about the future of journalism.
“If you’d asked me ten years ago, I’d have said that newsrooms would be largely resistant to being told what to do by the machine,” he tells Press Gazette in a phone interview.
The ‘machine’ he refers to is Sophi, an artificial intelligence (AI) programme developed by the G&M to drive up digital subscriptions.
As well as managing the Globe’s paywall, Sophi is also effectively a website homepage editor and social media consultant who provides “decision-support tools for editors”.
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A troubling 20 per cent of Aussies also believe the government is covering up the health risks associated with the 5G wireless network, including that it is being used to spread the coronavirus.
The roll-out of 5G networks in Australia began in June 2019, with technology using a similar frequency to existing 3G and 4G networks.
The only difference with 5G is it can work at faster speeds as it uses a higher band. Any suggestions that there is a link between 5G and coronavirus are utterly baseless, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said in 2020, when the theory gained traction. There is no evidence that the use of these radio waves in mobile networks is harmful to health or related to the current health pandemic.