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A blow to evil on Facebook

The government’s quick action will clean up social media without curbing valid news.

CHRISTIAN PORTER and MITCH FIFIELD

The Times

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 23, 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a press conference in Paris. - Facebook is shifting its focus to become

Facebook may pay for news

Facebook may pay news websites to publish high-quality content on its platform, according to Mark Zuckerberg.

Tom Knowles

Inquirer

Hard to stop giants

The ACCC has first-hand experience of how difficult it is to block Google tracking you.

Chris Griffith

TECHNOLOGYInquirer

Radio waves spreading out from a mobile phone in a shopping mall with matrix style data layered on top.

How Google keeps an eye on you

Google is watching as you shop, walk and sleep. How much info can we really afford to give away?

Chris Griffith

Media

FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. Zuckerberg is calling for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Zuckerberg call for global internet rules

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has called for a rewrite of the rules governing the internet.

Andrew White and CHRIS GRIFFITH

TECH GIANTSMedia

Facebook to tackle live streaming

Facebook has flagged a revamp of its rules surrounding live streaming and outlined steps to fight hate groups in Australia.

Josh Beckerman

Business

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers his speech during the VivaTech (Viva Technology) trade fair in Paris, on May 24, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN

Facebook calls for rewrite of internet rules

Facebook’s chief has called for governments to play a “more active role” in regulating the internet.

Media

Tech giants face ads backlash

Google, YouTube and Facebook face an advertising backlash after the Christchurch massacre went viral on their platforms.

LILLY VITOROVICH and ZOE SAMIOS

The World

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 23: Armed police guard Al Noor mosque after it was officially reopened following last weeks attack, on March 23, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 50 people were killed, and dozens were injured in Christchurch on Friday, March 15 when a gunman opened fire at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques. The attack is the worst mass shooting in New Zealand's history. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Net giants in neo-Nazi radio row

Twitter and YouTube are under fire for promoting a radio station that defended the views of the Christchurch killer.

Dipesh Gadher

The World

Google fined $2.38 billion by EU

Google has been slapped with a multi-billion dollar fine by EU anti-trust regulators for blocking rival online search advertisers.

ExclusiveTechnology

Australia is hosting a two-day Five Eyes forum on the Gold CoastSajid Javid, UK Home Secretary 28-08-18 tweet:Productive day with Five Eyes allies committing to improving counter-terrorism co-operation & information sharing. Security relationship between UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand & USA vital in fight against global terror.Sajid is pictured here with Peter Dutton.

Five Eyes to meet tech CEOs

Five Eyes officials to meet tech CEOs to discuss ways to stop illegal content on social media, following the Christchurch massacre.

Primrose Riordan

Wall Street Journal

Facebook axes sensitive metrics

Facebook will remove age, gender and zip code targeting of housing and employment in a court settlement.

Nat Ives

Wall Street Journal

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on-stage during the annual Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on March 19, 2019. - Google set out to disrupt the world of video games with a Stadia platform aimed at putting its massive data center power in game maker's hands and letting people play blockbuster titles from any device they wish. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP)

Games to be streamed from cloud

Google’s new Stadia service doesn’t need pricey hardware and could change how people buy and play games.

Sarah E Needleman

Terror in New ZealandNational Affairs

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield takes questions from media during a press conference with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ABC Chair Designate Ita Buttrose in Sydney, Thursday, February 28, 2019. Prime Minister Morrison has announced the Government has recommended to the Governor-General that Ita Buttrose be appointed as the next Chair of the ABC. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s face-to-face with tech giants

Scott Morrison will haul in tech giants to demand they take greater responsibility for violent and disturbing content.

Rosie Lewis and Remy Varga

Media

Massacre video still spreading

Facebook is working to stamp out replays of the shooting, the social media giant criticised for not removing it faster.

Lilly Vitorovich

Technology

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 18: A police officer stands guard near Al Noor mosque on March 18, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 50 people were killed, and dozens are still injured in hospital after a gunman opened fire on two Christchurch mosques on Friday, 15 March. The accused attacker, 28-year-old Australian, Brenton Tarrant, has been charged with murder and remanded in custody until April 5. The attack is the worst mass shooting in New Zealand's history. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Websites refuse to aid NZ police

Investigators looking into Christchurch gunman’s involvement in far-right chat boards have been met with an expletive-filled reply.

Technology

29/11/2018: Stephen Scheeler, former Facebook CEO for Australia and New Zealand, has been appointed as the new chairman of CEBIT Australia - Asia-PacificÕs most significant B2B innovation and technology event which will be held next year in Sydney. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘What else isn’t being stopped?’

A former Facebook boss says social media giants should consider banning live streaming in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks.

Remy Varga

Technology

Platforms feel advertising heat

Social media platforms are facing the threat of an advertising backlash following the Christchurch terror attack.

Andrew White and ZOE SAMIOS

exclusiveNational Security

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 18: Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce on March 18, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The Prime Minister has announced an acceleration to the Safer Communities programme, with $55 million in community safety grants, with priority to be given to religious schools, places of religious worship and religious assembly. Grants from $50,000 to $1.5 million will provide for safety enhancements such as CCTV cameras, lighting, fencing, bollards, alarms, security systems and public address systems. The additional funding is in response to the deadly shooting attacks on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, 15 March which killed 50 people. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

G20 ‘must act’ on social evils

Scott Morrison will push the G20 for a global agreement to clamp down on social media platforms that are used to promote violence.

Simon Benson and Rosie Lewis

ExclusiveNational Affairs

PM flags regulating tech giants

Scott Morrison has hinted at regulation if the tech titans failed to act on limiting the spread of extremism on their platforms.

Simon Benson and Richard Ferguson

Broadcast

This frame from the video that was live-streamed Friday, March 15, 2019, shows a gunman, who used the name Brenton Tarrant on social media, in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. Those who watched Brenton Tarrant growing up in the sleepy Australian country town of Grafton apparently had no inkling of the evil potential that he allegedly unleashed in merciless gunfire in two New Zealand mosques that claimed at least 49 lives. (Shooter's Video via AP)

ACMA investigates broadcasts

ACMA will investigate if Australian television broadcasters breached rules by showing livestreamed video of the Christchurch terror attack.

Richard Ferguson

Media

Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a doorstop after attending Mass at St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church at Arncliffe in Sydney, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s warning on live streaming

Scott Morrison has called on social media platforms to reconsider whether they can safely offer live-streaming video services.

ZOE SAMIOS and Andrew White

National Affairs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks at floral tributes to the victims of the Christchurch terror attack during a visit to the Lakemba Mosque, in Lakemba, in south west Sydney, Saturday, March 16, 2019. The Prime Minster met with Islamic community leaders following the terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

PM to censor Facebook violence

Scott Morrison has demanded social media companies provide assurances terrorist attacks will not be shown live online again.

Rosie Lewis

CommentTechnology

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Whatever happened is a warning

Google was down and Facebook has had a record outage. There’s a warning we can’t ignore.

Chris Griffith

Technology

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in New York. Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve the issue. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Facebook: worst outage in history

Facebook has suffered the worst outage in history as global disruptions rocked the company for more than 12 hours.

Jessica Cortis and Supratim Adhikari

Technology

FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Amit Singhal, senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., speaks at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. Google paid former search executive Singhal $35 million in an exit package when the exec was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents released Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google ‘paid out sex accused’

Google agreed to pay $190m to two top executives who left after being accused of sexual harassment, a lawsuit alleges.

Rob Copeland

Technology

French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks during a session of questions to the Government at the French National Assembly in Paris on March 5, 2019. (Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP)

French ready tech tax

France is preparing legislation to tax tech giants like Google and Facebook in what it says is a “fiscal justice” measure.

Companies

Facebook squares off with ACCC

Facebook has disputed calls for regulation of its news rankings, labelling draft ACCC proposals as “unprecedented”.

ZOE SAMIOS

Technology

Facebook got it wrong on teens

Facebook admits it gave misleading information about how many teenagers were using its banned tracking app.

DAVID SWAN

Media

10/12/2018: ACCC chairman Rod Sims discussing preliminary report into Google, Facebook and Australian news and advertising. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Media hard line on tech titans

Nine Entertainment and other media players have backed calls for the ACCC to police digital giants Google and Facebook.

DAVID SWAN, Lilly Vitorovich and ZOE SAMIOS

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