2023-08-19
Facebook news ban hampers Yellowknife fire🔥evacuation efforts, making it difficult to stay on top of information. Local network @CabinRadio has become go-to source for news, by @traceylindeman https://www.theguardian.com/ ... via @guardian #journalism
CBC News
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
2021-12-27
#Pregnancy apps have become a battleground of vaccine misinformation. How the ‘What To Expect’ site managed to clean up its big #antivax problem https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @washingtonpost @HealthWatch123 #COVID19 #vaccination #infodemic
Washington Post
Pregnancy app What to Expect says it invested significantly in content moderation, as vaccine misinformation rises in the community sections of pregnancy apps
2021-04-26
.@Facebook's rolling standoff with #journalism. In cases of difficult news judgment, who decides what counts as news? The answer is simple: Facebook alone decides, by @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #SoMe
New York Times
Facebook says it has a policy letting any person initiate a takedown of a post containing an image of their residence, regardless of the post's newsworthiness
just very bad ones.” Pretty accurate! To be fair, people WANT Facebook to exercise judgment, except when they DON'T want Facebook to exercise judgment. Doing nothing is also judgme...
2021-02-20
Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, @Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout. By turning off news sharing, it has turned attention to its own reckless opaque power, by @EmilyBell https://www.theguardian.com/ ... via @guardian #journalism
Bloomberg
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he will hold talks with Zuckerberg to “see if there's a pathway forward”, but says news legislation will go ahead
Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, @Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout. By turning off news sharing, it has turned attention to its own reckless opaque power, by @EmilyBell https://www.theguardian.com/ ... via @guardian #journalism
The Verge
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
2021-02-19
Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, @Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout. By turning off news sharing, it has turned attention to its own reckless opaque power, by @EmilyBell https://www.theguardian.com/ ... via @guardian #journalism
ABC
Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban
Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, @Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout. By turning off news sharing, it has turned attention to its own reckless opaque power, by @EmilyBell https://www.theguardian.com/ ... via @guardian #journalism
Techdirt
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …
2021-01-23
A Country With No Google or Facebook? Australia🇦🇺is threatening to make big tech platforms pay for news they share (and profit from handsomely). They are fighting back, and fighting dirty, by @damiencave https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism
The Guardian
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search
which one senator called blackmail — revealed apparent willingness of Facebook and Google to hide or erase reliable sources of info for millions at a time when social media platfor...
2020-06-04
America is awash in cameras, a double-edged sword for protesters and police. Smartphone cameras, home security cameras, traffic cameras — digital eyes are a boon and danger to protesters, by @heatherkelly @rachelerman https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @washingtonpost #BlackLivesMatter
Washington Post
America is awash in cameras, a double-edged sword for protesters, who can record police brutality, and cops, who can use them to track down protesters
digital eyes are a boon and danger to protesters, by @heatherkelly @rachelerman https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @washingtonpost #BlackLivesMatter
America is awash in cameras, a double-edged sword for protesters and police. Smartphone cameras, home security cameras, traffic cameras — digital eyes are a boon and danger to protesters, by @heatherkelly @rachelerman https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @washingtonpost #BlackLivesMatter
Apple
In open letter on racism, Tim Cook speaks out on George Floyd's “senseless killing” and says we must commit to creating a better, more just world for everyone
Right now, there is a pain deeply etched in the soul of our nation and in the hearts of millions.