A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed Australia's flag. /Reuters Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed on Friday to press ahead with laws to require Facebook Inc to
In a shocking act of retaliation Thursday, Facebook blocked Australians from sharing news, a milestone in the increasingly frantic jockeying between governments, media
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation page on Facebook is displayed without posts in Sydney, February 18, 2021. /AP Facebook blocked news content from being read and shared in its news feed i
The move is a response to a proposed law that would force the social network to pay for the use of news in the country.
The news is awash with stories of platforms clamping down on misinformation and the angst involved in banning prominent members. But these are Band-Aids over a deeper issue — namely, that the problem
Australia’s government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums r
Reentering society after having been incarcerated by the criminal justice system can be daunting. Advances in technology and the continued, unchecked march of capitalism place obstacles in paths that
"It's very easy to make four or five accounts but if you have to block them all, then block them all," the England star says.
The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead.In a conversation hosted by the Carnegie Endowment Thursday, Oversight Board c
TC Sessions: Justice, our second-ever dedicated event to diversity, equity, inclusion and labor in tech, is coming up on March 3, 2021. This is a virtual one-day conference featuring the brightest inn
The headset would come equipped with a dozen cameras to feed in footage from the outside world, according to reports.
Screenshots of the Parler app from the App Store are seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland, January 10, 2021. /Getty Editor's note:Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-base
Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Pri
You’ve just landed on the web version of my weekly newsletter, Human Capital. It’s where we look at the recent events of the week pertaining to diversity, equity, inclusion and labor in te
Hello friends, this is Week in Review.Last week, I dove into the AR maneuverings of Apple and Facebook and what that means for the future of the web. This week, I’m aiming to touch the meme stoc
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” is now accepting comments on one of its earliest and likely most consequential cases. The Facebook Oversight Board announced Friday that it would begin acc
Imagining a privacy spectrum for technology companies would be reductive, but Apple and Facebook would be at opposite ends.