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Meta's Threads App: A New Microblogging Platform Competing With X

Meta's Threads, a text-based microblogging platform, competes with Twitter, focusing on public conversations and user engagement.

Top News

WhatsApp had a huge outage yesterday — here's what happened

The UK site Downdetector, which monitors the performance of websites, says around 82,000 issues with WhatsApp began at 6.25pm on Wednesday

Evening Standard

Meta's Acquisition Of Onavo: Key To Product Decisions Revealed

Learn how Meta's acquisition of Onavo influenced product decisions and competition in the tech industry.

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How to battle climate disinformation

Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann discusses the role AI and social media play in perpetuating climate falsehoods

Salon

Afternoon Update: tributes flow for Australian killed in Gaza strike; Facebook axes news tab; and why millennials are quitting the rat race

PM Anthony Albanese says death of aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Deir al-Balah ‘completely unacceptable’

The Guardian - AU

Facebook shuts news tab after Meta vows to stop paying Australian publishers for content

Meta says it will take a number of days for news tab to be fully removed in Australia and the United States

The Guardian - AU

AI in elections, the good, the bad and the ugly

The widespread application of AI is likely to bring about a paradigm shift in the general election in 2024

The Hindu

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Facebook angers enemies as it starts to unfriend news

People relying on social media to stay abreast of current affairs will be forced to find another source as Facebook in Australia moves to cut its news tab.

AAP

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Anonymity, Identity, and Lies," by Prof. Artur Pericles L. Monteiro

The sixth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.

Reason

Exploring The Top 10 Tech Entrepreneurs Of The Decade

Explore the impact of top tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg on the industry over the past decade.

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Social media news removal an 'abrogation' of duty

Meta begins scaling back news on its sites this month as a federal minister raised concerns about disinformation and misinformation "flooding" social media.

AAP

Facebook Tanked Its 'Watch' Streaming Biz to Keep Netflix Spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Ads, Class-Action Antitrust Suit Reveals

With Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings on the Facebook board, the streaming giant even got access to the private messages of the social network's users, plaintiffs say

Broadcasting & Cable

'Grave Step Backwards': Meta Shuts Monitoring Tool In Election Year

A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.

International Business Times

‘Humour is powerful’: Cartoons take on Uganda’s repressive government

Huge potholes and rundown hospitals are actually getting fixed – thanks to online satirical campaigns

Al Jazeera

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The Guardian - UK

Cleaners, builders, Primark shoppers: ads for London mayor hopeful Susan Hall reveal Tories’ targets

Analysis shows content is aimed at working-class over-50s, and plays on fears of crime, stirs anger and pushes conspiracy theories

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FBI Questioned Woman Over Social Media Posts, Sparking Controversy

FBI questioning of an Oklahoma woman over social media posts raises concerns about free speech and surveillance practices.

Evening Standard

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel hit out at 'hate' after wedding

Twins married US Army veteran Josh Bowling in 2021

Al Jazeera

Meta’s oversight board urges Facebook, Instagram to lift ban on ‘shaheed’

The advisory board has told Meta the ban on the word, meaning ‘martyr’, restricts free expression and is unnecessary.

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Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second'

We're nearing a year when a negative leap second could be needed to shave time — an unprecedented step that would have unpredictable effects, a new study says.

AAP

Warnings TikTok could usher in a 'digital cold war'

The TikTok debate has fuelled a global furore over privacy, data collection and state influence that threatens to divide the internet down geopolitical lines.

AAP

Concerns over Meta's plan to take news out of News Feed

Social media users, as well as small and specialised news outlets, could be the big losers from Meta's plan to remove more news from Facebook, experts say.

Reason

FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts

"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.

The Guardian - UK

Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules on loot boxes

Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches

Salon

The world of underground sperm banks

The new documentary "Spermworld" explores the underground phenomenon shaking up fertility access

The Guardian - AU

Royal reverse as Nine’s 60 Minutes goes from ‘scandal’ to sympathy for Princess of Wales

Original story scrutinised ‘Catherine’s photoshopping blunder’ but its replacement heaped praise on ‘a courageous woman’. Plus: David McBride v the ABC

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