2021-02-20
“Facebook is a threat to democracy and to public health” Former Facebook investor and mentor to Mark Zuckerberg Roger McNamee (@moonalice) on the social media giant's decision to ban news in Australia. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
“Facebook is a threat to democracy and to public health” Former Facebook investor and mentor to Mark Zuckerberg Roger McNamee (@moonalice) on the social media giant's decision to ban news in Australia. https://twitter.com/...
Techdirt
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not...
2021-02-19
“Facebook is a threat to democracy and to public health” Former Facebook investor and mentor to Mark Zuckerberg Roger McNamee (@moonalice) on the social media giant's decision to ban news in Australia. https://twitter.com/...
Techdirt
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …
2020-04-27
“We hoped one million Australians might download it within five days - instead we hit one million within five hours” Health Minister @GregHuntMP joined us with an update on the COVIDSafe app and to to respond to @Barnaby_Joyce's concerns. How it works: https://7news.com.au/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, seeing 1.1M signups within a few hours
- Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed