March
The Republican lobbyist who became Zuckerberg’s most trusted adviser
Meta’s newly promoted head of global affairs has masterminded the social media giant’s pivot towards Donald Trump.
January
Trump 2.0 has business racing to ditch diversity and climate goals
Corporates face a new reality – one where they stand to benefit immensely, as long as they don’t cross the White House. Australian companies are taking notice.
Meta appoints executive with Republican ties to lead global policy
Joel Kaplan is the new head of global policy, replacing Nick Clegg, a former deputy prime minister of Britain who has handled policy and regulatory issues globally for Meta since 2018.
December 2023
Metaverse a black hole, but Zuckerberg had a surprisingly good year
He renamed Facebook and committed billions of dollars, but he cannot force us to care about the metaverse. Meta’s AI experiment proved more successful.
June 2023
US launches ‘all hands on deck’ push to regulate AI
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has launched a sprawling congressional effort to set new rules for artificial intelligence, in a race to catch up to Europe.
January 2023
Facebook, Instagram to reinstate Trump’s accounts
Meta said it was lifting the suspension two years after banning the former president, after adding guardrails to “deter repeat offences”.
December 2022
Facebook, Instagram slammed for lax content rules for VIPs
Parent company Meta’s oversight board accuses the group of leaving dangerous content online to serve business interests.
August 2022
Apple tells employees to return to work three days
The stumbling return for Apple reflects the difficulty it and other big Silicon Valley groups have had in deciding on the role of the office post-coronavirus pandemic.
March 2022
Why Facebook’s survival depends on a losing politician
Nick Clegg’s promotion at Meta signals that the tech giant now depends on astute political engagement for its future.
December 2021
Video shows Facebook exec slamming his ‘wretched’ metaverse headset
Vice president Nick Clegg called Meta masks ‘bulky’ and said he could not drink coffee without lifting it and making his avatar stare awkwardly at the ceiling.
November 2021
A Bretton Woods for the digital age can save the open internet
Global rules are needed to protect the web from the data protectionism of democratic countries.
October 2021
Mark Zuckerberg loses $9.6b in hours as Facebook plunges
The social media giant’s stock slide came after a whistleblower spoke out and outages took the company’s flagship products offline.
Whistleblower accuses Facebook of misleading public and investors
Frances Haugen suggested that Facebook had lied to the public, exaggerating the progress it had made tackling hate, violence, and misinformation on its platform.
June 2021
New G7 deal doesn’t guarantee big tech tax windfall for Australia
While tax experts are mixed on whether the new G7 deal will be good for Australia, they agree it won’t mean tech giants start paying 15 per cent of their gross revenues to the ATO.
March 2021
Facebook offers users (a little) more control over public comments
Facebook will give users more control over who can comment on public posts - but it has still left publishers open to unavoidable defamation.
October 2020
Facebook has a lot to lose in the US election
The social media behemoth's success, or failure, in protecting the integrity of the November 3 election may dictate how it is permitted to operate in future.
June 2020
Zuckerberg loses $US7b as advertisers boycott Facebook
Starbucks and PepsiCo are among the latest companies cutting ads to pressure Facebook and its peers to suppress posts that glorify violence and promote racism.
January 2020
The EU is going to miss the UK when it's gone
In the EU’s corridors of power, people ask where it all went wrong and the overriding feeling among its political elite remains one of regret.