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‘Meta will play hardball. So will the government’: Facebook threatens Canadian option
“Meta’s threat to pull news content from Australia should send a shudder down the spine,” says Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones.
- by Paul Sakkal
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The charts that prove social media has bigger dangers than Elon Musk’s ego
The argument about the violent terror attack video is urgent and important. But what if the greater danger is slow and insidious?
- by David Crowe
Local Facebook profits soar amid bargaining code stand-off
The social media giant increased its spending estimates for the year, once again raising questions about whether its futuristic technological bets will eventually pay off.
- by Calum Jaspan
Is logging off the new black?
Twenty years after Mark Zuckerberg and his mates started Facebook, tech watchers are beginning to ask: have we passed peak social media?
- by David Swan
Analysis
Social media
What would Facebook look like without any news?
Last time Meta banned news, it removed the Facebook pages of charities, emergency services and hospitals. What will happen this time?
- by David Swan
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Scams
Roll up, roll up, suckers. Have we got a free trip to paradise for you
There’s one born every minute, and the scammers of the internet know it better than anyone.
- by Tony Wright
Frydenberg urges Labor to negotiate with Zuckerberg over media deal
The former federal treasurer, now the Goldman Sachs Australia chairman, said brokering a deal with Meta and Google involved one-on-one conversations with the companies’ chiefs.
- by Jessica Yun
Opinion
Social media
Facebook is 20. It still hasn’t grown up
On its 20th birthday, Facebook has become the poster child for ‘enshittification’, where an online platform decays to the point in which is only serves itself.
- by David Swan
‘You have blood on your hands’: Tech CEOs grilled over child sexual exploitation
In the hearing room, dozens of parents had stood waiting for the CEOs to enter, holding pictures of their children who had been sexually exploited on social media.
- by David Shepardson and Makini Brice
Topless massages to private flights: CEO mishaps around the world in 2023
While some chief executives seemed to relish the spotlight, Elon Musk chief among them, others were inadvertently thrust into social media’s harsh glare.
- by Jo Constantz
How the ‘king of the cannibals’ Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley
Controversy at OpenAI led to his firing and rehiring last month. In the end, Altman’s reputation has only been burnished by his temporary downfall.
- by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Marc Fisher and Nitasha Tiku