Features
The facts behind how social media handle political ads
Online platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads Read more…
News
Facebook skirts China’s ‘great firewall’ with new ad sales push
Facebook’s Asia-Pacific headquarters is tasked with developing better ad-buying tools for China customers who have to work around internet ‘great firewall’. Read more…
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Facebook group used fake faces to push pro-Trump message
Facebook has taken down a well-financed campaign that used dozens of artificially generated faces to spread pro-Trump and anti-Chinese messages. Read more…
Views
Facebook is building its own OS – lifeboat or new foundation?
In an age where collaboration, co-operation and openness are king, news that Facebook is to build its own OS has caused much comment. Read more…
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Twitter’s social media protocol plan has a major flaw: Twitter
Twitter’s proposal for an open social media protocol is a good idea. But critics are worried Twitter would have too much control over the resulting protocol. Read more…
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Australia to tech giants – commit to competition rules – or else!
Australia tells tech giants such as Facebook and Google to agree to new rules to ensure they do not abuse their market power or face new controls. Read more…
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Facebook issues correction notice at request of Singapore govt
Facebook says it has issued a correction notice on a user’s post at the request of the Singapore government in response to new “fake news” law. Read more…
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Singapore invokes ‘fake news’ law over Facebook post
Singapore political figure corrected a Facebook post questioning the independence of state investment firms in the first use of new ‘fake news’ law. Read more…
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The digital commerce and payments prize is huge – let battle begin
It seems a pretty good bet that Google, Apple and the rest have read Juniper Research’s latest report on digital commerce. It is going to take off – big time! Read more…
Off the Wire
200 Myanmar villages visited to support digital literacy
Two vans, provided by Ooredoo and Facebook, will travel to more than 200 villages in Myanmar over a 100 days to help educate people on digital literacy. Read more…