Australian parliament
passes media reforms
The parliament passes a law to make Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their platforms in reforms
Australian parliament
Join Clubhouse! Umm, what is Clubhouse?
The focus on audio, rather than text, photos or videos, is a differentiator and part of the appeal of Clubhouse
WhatsApp to move ahead
with privacy update
The messaging platform will allow users to read it at 'their own pace' and will also display a banner providing additional information
Audio chat app Clubhouse breaks through
Clubhouse, an 11-month-old audio chat app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation
Social network Parler returns online
Parler is back online a month after Amazon and other tech giants cut off the company for hosting calls for violence around the time of the Capitol riot
Facebook to temporarily reduce political content in few countries
It will exempt content from official government agencies and services as well as COVID-19 information from health organisations
The great firewall
cracked, briefly
China’s censors blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media
Facebook, Twitter outpaced by smaller platforms
Facebook showed improvements in clamping down on false and misleading content, such as removing pages and groups related to the QAnon conspiracy theory
Twitter's India snub
sparks debate on
compliance
Twitter's refusal to comply with an Indian govt directive to block over 250 accounts puts the company at the centre of a political firestorm
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar
The Myanmar military's shutdown of Facebook access caps years of tension between them in a nation where Facebook is used by half the population
