Political pressure on tech giants has grown throughout the week and leaders are fuming as misinformation and violent content continues to spread like “wildfire”.
In moments of stress or boredom,I find myself watching weird videos on social media. That’s not why I installed the app.
The response of politicians to the growing repugnance to social media’s malign influence following the Sydney stabbings is big on rhetoric,but a large gap yawns between their words and actions.
Furious Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones will force social media companies to answer to government after the spread of misinformation had turned a “horrific week into something diabolical”.
Since the Bondi and western Sydney church stabbings,attention of politicians and analysts has turned to the role of social media in spreading false claims.
The company is against a bill to stop journalism job losses as publishers struggle to make money,while it cashes in on advertising in search results.
Andrew Forrest’s legal battle to hold social media giant Meta to account over the proliferation of scam ads using his likeness on Facebook has been dealt a major blow.
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest has launched another blistering tirade in his war with Facebook,accusing the social media giant of turning a blind eye to scam ads ahead of two major court hearings.
Twenty years after Mark Zuckerberg and his mates started Facebook,tech watchers are beginning to ask:have we passed peak social media?
Last time Meta banned news,it removed the Facebook pages of charities,emergency services and hospitals. What will happen this time?
Led by a few big tech companies – Meta,Alphabet,Apple,Amazon and Microsoft – the digital revolution is turning capitalism into “technofeudalism”.