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Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated
Social media apps can cause children to become increasingly distracted.
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Four Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against social media platforms to force them to change practices that harm schoolchildren.
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A new change to Meta’s apps will see users no longer recommended political content by default. The ramifications of this will be far-reaching.
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New research shows that even after Facebook made changes to stem the tide of dangerous pandemic misinformation, some accounts continued to thrive.
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Online extremism is a unique challenge – terrorists use methods that can’t be captured by standard content moderation. So, what can we do about it?
Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa.
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Fibre optic cables now literally encircle Africa, though some parts of the continent are far better connected than others.
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Australia needs to prioritise finding new funding to support journalism, particularly in remote and regional areas.
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Calls for the Fair News Digital Bargaining Bill to be fast-tracked are misguided. A better solution would be a straight levy on digital advertising to fund public interest news production.
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Meta is getting out of the news business to avoid paying for journalism under the Australian Government’s News Media Bargaining Code - but no one is surprised.
The US largely dominates the technology landscape.
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The lack of large, global European tech leaders might actually be a blessing.
Federal Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland and Federal Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones respond to the Meta news.
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Meta’s announcement it will stop paying for news poses a threat. High-quality news is expensive, but important. Do we need economic measures that somehow get the public to pay for it?
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The news page on Facebook will go, and with it, the flow of money to some Australian media outlets. But will the news content disappear too?
The CEOs of Discord, Snap, TikTok, X and Meta prepare to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 31, 2024.
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As legislators rail against social media companies, the companies continue to put millions of young people at risk. Here’s how − and what can be done about it.
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Governments around the world keep filing antitrust lawsuits against the ‘big four’ tech companies. Here’s why that matters for everyone who uses their products.
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Company layoffs can have unintended consequences, even for those spared from redundancy.
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Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Nvidia have driven a bull market rally in US stocks in 2023. But will they dominate in 2024?
Would you pay to browse Facebook or Instagram without ads?
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Meta’s decision to charge users for an ad-free experience still requires that people have their information collected.
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Learning about the world from live events is the next step for AI.
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Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
An agreement reached between Google and the federal government means the search engine will pay $100 million annually to Canadian media outlets.
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Google has secured significant concessions in its deal with Ottawa over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which comes into effect on Dec. 19.