UK to rein in tech giants
The UK plans to create a new body to force the removal of harmful content from the internet.
New laws will ‘criminalise’ news
Media companies say tough new laws targeting violent material being shown online will impede news agencies.
Abuse clips ‘improve experience’
Moderators are instructed to leave child abuse videos on Facebook to improve user experience, an investigation has found.
Journalism ‘crucial to our lives’
ACCC chief Rod Sims has promised to scrutinise the tech giants’ impact to protect quality journalism.
Facebook used in fake news scam
A fake news scam on Facebook has been exposed that could be costing publishers and businesses advertising dollars.
We’d love to see the boss: PM
Malcolm Turnbull says he’d welcome Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of a security committee over Facebook’s links to Huawei.
Facebook nude photo trial sunk
The eSafety Commissioner has called off a Facebook trial in which users would send the network naked photos of themselves.
Every move you make
Google may go past seeing what we buy to swaying our choices.
Facebook shuts 1.3bn fakes
The extent of fakery on Facebook has been revealed as the social network disabled 1.3 billion fraudulent accounts in six months.
Facebook finds friends for IS
Interested in Islamic State jihad or Islamist terror? Facebook can suggest friends for you.
Rein in tech giants
The investigation into the tech giants’ impact on the media’s ability to fund quality news couldn’t come soon enough.
Platforms must be brought to heel
There was a sense of the Dunkirk spirit last week with the publication of the submissions to the digital platforms inquiry.
Inside Google’s workplace hell
Employees have turned the tech giant’s workplace into a virtual war zone over all manner of social and political beliefs.
Google, Facebook bad for business
The ACCC’s inquiry must examine the ways digital giants run interference.
Tech giants in ‘abuses of power’
Technology giants have been accused of breaching competition practices and abusing their position to push out rivals.
Titans ‘guilty’ of market abuse
News Corp has accused Google and Facebook of anti-competitive behaviour in the company’s strongest attack yet on the power of tech giants.
Cambridge Analytica closes
Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the heart of the Facebook data mining scandal is ceasing all operations, effective immediately.
Own the data and rule the future
Social media has destroyed our notion of privacy and those who harvest data know what they are getting.
Facebook’s bad? This is worse
One tech company gathers more of your personal data than Facebook does, by almost every measure.
Finance guru sues Facebook
Martin Lewis is suing Facebook for allowing scammers to use his name and image in fake ads on the social network.
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