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Social media giant and Google agree to amended legislation requiring them to pay for journalism; temporary restriction blocked users from sharing vital virus information
Look carefully near Kong's foot for MercatorNet Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February 18, you didn’t see anything from The Australian, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph or, initially, the Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Sydney Health, South Australia ...
Facebook, Google and TikTok signed up to the voluntary code today, but many see it as “pointless and shameless”.
Image: Unsplash Prerana Pakhrin Misrahi Communications Specialist, Society and Innovation, World Economic Forum The theme for World Day of Social Justice 2021 is "A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy." We asked four experts to share their views on how to ensure social justice in a digital world. 2020 was a revealing year. The exponential rate of technological change in the past decade was already posing certain challenges and threats to vulnerable communities, supporting a largely unequal Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Compounding on this, in 2020,...
Facebook will lose fans and customers in Australia as a result of its news ban, according to a Facebook user in Sydney.