カテゴリー: Social networking
Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes ‘against local law’Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government’s request, the account’s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing…
Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at the crisis in western democracy, Donald Trump’s victory and the role played by digital mediaIn November 2020, shortly after Donald Trump’s defeat in the U…
Papers leaked by Frances Haugen revealed users in India were inundated with fake news and anti-Muslim postsFormer Facebook employee Frances Haugen and other prominent whistleblowers have renewed calls for Facebook to release a long-awaited report on it…
Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaulSocial media platforms are biased against facts and creating “a virus of lies” that threatens all democracies, the Nobel peace prize-winning journal…
Misleading images shared on social media after mosques vandalised and homes ransacked in Tripura statePolice in India are seeking the owners of about 100 social media accounts accused of sharing “fake news” after mob attacks on mosques in the north-eas…
Whistleblower Frances Haugen adds to long-held concerns that social media site is fuelling violence and instabilityWhistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to US senators on Tuesday shone a light on violence and instability in Myanmar and Ethiopia…
Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform’s own standardsFacebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation, despite promis…
Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regimeAs terrible as the events were that played out on Capitol Hill on 6 January, Maria Ressa admits to feeling “a small amount of re…
Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impactFacebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and industry analysts ha…
Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimesFacebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the…
Government will oversee online news, social media and video streaming platformsIndia’s government has ordered that all online news, social media and video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime are to be subject to state regulation, raisi…
The Kazakh American Association has released a letter on social media accusing Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest Borat film of ‘justifying harassment’A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen’s…
Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP partyFacebook’s alleged political bias and its role in spreading anti-Muslim hate speech in India is to come under scrutiny when senior executives are summoned before a parliamentar…
Social media sites suspend process as they assess impact of new national security lawFacebook and its WhatsApp messaging service have “paused” the processing of government requests for user data in Hong Kong, the company said. WhatsApp is pausing such …
Company says it has ‘paused’ its relationship with the social media company as part of global movement against hate speechNew Zealand’s largest newspaper group has temporarily quit Facebook in a bold “experiment” aligning itself with a global boycott o…