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”.
Current research seems to settle on a limit for our population of “less than 30 million”. We are heading for a train wreck at the present rate of growth.
As the cost of living starts to bite,the Dull trend is wooing men – and now women – in droves.
Apple,Google,Facebook and Microsoft earn billions of dollars a year in Australia,and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has said he expects multinationals to “pay their fair share”.
The dressing down came on the back of a new report which found money lost to scams in WA had jumped 36 per cent to a record $22 million.