journalism
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Facebook Threatens to Ban Sharing News in Australia if ACCC Code is Made Law
Facebook has threatened to to ban all news on its platforms in Australia if the ACCC’s draft code on publishing is made law. If passed, the consumer watchdog’s code would force Facebook, Google and media companies to negotiate over paying for news. On Tuesday, the company published a statement from Managing Director for Facebook Australia…
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Scott Morrison Calls for Investigation After U.S. Cops Assault Aussie Journalists
Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, has contacted his country’s embassy in the U.S. to call for an investigation after police in Washington D.C. were captured on live TV assaulting journalists from Australia’s Channel 7 news network on Tuesday. The Australian journalists were covering the protests in Washington D.C., one of the many demonstrations first sparked…
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Facebook’s Pretty Sure It Won’t Fuck Up The News This Time
On Friday, Facebook started tests of what seems like its umpteenth attempt at handling journalism on the platform—a dedicated Facebook News section for users that lives separately from the standard News Feed on its mobile app and licenses content from the outlets writing it.
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Facebook And Google Clearly Don’t Exist In The Arrowverse
I can believe a child with dark matter shrapnel in her head can create a deadly dreamscape and plot to murder adults. I can believe a man can run faster than the eye can see. I can believe that someone out there in the multiverse would really date Sherloque Wells. But The Flash just stretched…