Selena Gomez brought attention to racist content and misinformation on Facebook in a private message to Facebook executives shared on her Instagram Friday night. The 28-year-old Rainy Day In New York star shared a screenshot of her message to Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, in her … Read more
Is this the end of Neighbours? Fears that local content quota changes could spell death for the residents of Ramsay Street after 35 years By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 03:24 BST, 3 September 2020 It’s the family favourite series which has graced the screens for … Read more
Stan secures landmark deal with NBC Universal as they enter multi-year exclusive content partnership By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:55 BST, 25 August 2020 | Updated: 23:57 BST, 25 August 2020 Australian streaming platform Stan has secured a new content deal with global entertainment giant NBC Universal. The multi-year partnership, announced on Wednesday, will … Read more
Facebook has come under fire recently for allowing medical misinformation to run rampant on its platform and a new report finds it may be worse than previously believed. Non-profit group Avaaz found 84 percent of posts with false claims and advice have gone unlabeled to warn users of the misleading content. Not only did Facebook’s … Read more
Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams – because students find them ‘too stressful’. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, have written to … Read more
Facebook has been accused of ‘actively promoting’ Holocaust denial on its platform, in a new report by a British think-tank. Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which works to counter extremism, found that people who had ‘liked’ Holocaust denial content on Facebook were directed to more of the same by the site’s algorithm. The … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: James Murdoch resigns from board of News Corp citing ‘disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets’ James Murdoch sent his letter of resignation from the News Corp board Friday He cited disagreements over ‘certain editorial content’ published by the company’s news outlets as his reason for departure News Corp … Read more
March, 20 2019 – Google fined £1.27bn for breaching EU competition laws July, 18 2018 – EU antitrust regulators hand down a $5 billion (£3.8bn / €4.3bn) fine to Google after a three-year long investigation. June 27, 2017 – EU fines Google $2.84 billion (£2.1bn / €2.42bn) for thwarting rivals of shopping comparison websites. July 14, … Read more
Labour boycotts Facebook for a month over failure to remove racist and conspiracy theory content after death of George Floyd Labour has imposed a month-long boycott on Facebook over hate speech row No advertising placed on the site in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests Sir Keir Starmer has ‘taken the knee’ to demonstrate support … Read more
Facebook has made a series of decisions that undermined civil rights, including allowing posts from President Donald Trump that violate the values of the leading social network, an independent audit report said Wednesday. The audit commissioned by Facebook in 2018 found the California giant had taken ‘important steps forward in building a long-term civil rights … Read more