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Misinformation about COVID vaccines is putting Australia’s diverse communities at risk
Ban Xiao, Tahlea Aualiitia, Natasya Salim & Samuel Yang, ABC News, 04 March 2021As Australia begins to receive its COVID-19 vaccines, experts are warning against misinformation being spread on social media platforms, including among culturally diverse groups. For example, posts on Chinese social media platform WeChat have been spreading the false claim that mRNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer jab, can integrate with a...
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Buzzy social audio apps like Clubhouse tap into the age-old appeal of the human voice
Damian Radcliffe, NiemanLab, 26 February 2021New social media service Clubhouse is tapping into the creativity, intimacy, and authenticity that audio can deliver, a trend that lies at the heart of the current golden age of podcasting. However, with its rapid expansion, the company is facing issues that are familiar to many other social networks, such as managing misinformation. In this...
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In Conversation: State of government relations, social media & evidence-based discourse, and corporate reputation
Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 23 February 2021On this episode of In Conversation, Lachlan Rees, Manager Government, Industry & Public Policy Group Corporate Affairs, Suncorp joins the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the top news stories and developments in early 2021.
Listen to this episode as Lachlan and Wayne discuss how...
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Twitter stands up to India and refuses to block journalists
Matthew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review, 11 February 2021India's farmer protests turned violent as police responded with tear gas and batons, drawing international attention and a wave of public support for the farmers across social media. Indian authorities responded by harassing and filing sedition charges against journalists, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government demanded Twitter block the...
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Internet blackouts skyrocket amid global political unrest
Dave Lawler & Sara Fischer, Axios, 02 February 2021An internet outage will usually occur when a coup is taking place in a country. At least 35 nations have restricted access to the internet or social media since 2019, according to research conducted by NetBlock, an organisation that monitors internet freedom. In Myanmar, internet disruptions coincided with reports that top politicians,...
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Facebook reportedly plans newsletter tools after explosion in popularity
Jon Potter, The Verge, 29 January 2021Facebook is planning to offer newsletter tools for independent journalists and writers, after a surge in interest in online newsletters. Newsletter service Substack boasted over 250,000 paying subscribers across its service as of September 2020, with several high-profile journalists ditching traditional publications to also start their own...
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COVID-19 misinformation on Chinese social media offers lessons for countering conspiracy theories
Kaiping Chen, NiemanLab, 29 January 2021Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories have accelerated misinformation. Dubbed an "infodemic" by the World Health Organisation (WHO), COVID-19 is an example of how science can be distorted to divide people within a country and across nations. Most prominently, there have been a range of narratives spread across both...
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US President Donald Trump Twitter ban ‘raises regulation questions’
BBC News, 11 January 2021The bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on President Donald Trump's accounts raise a question about how social media is regulated, according to British Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. The decisions came after Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building last Wednesday, leading Mr Hancock to believe the bans showed Big Tech...
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Facebook offers up first-ever estimate of hate speech prevalence on its platform
Elizabeth Culliford & Katie Paul, Reuters, 20 November 2020Facebook has disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform. The social media giant identified that out of every 10,000 content views, 10 to 11 included hate speech. Facebook says it has removed 22.1 million pieces of hate speech content in the third quarter, about 95 per cent of which was proactively identified, compared to...
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Is social media ready for a COVID-19 vaccine?
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox, 09 November 2020Pfizer and BioNTech announced this week they had developed a vaccine that was more than 90 per cent effective against COVID-19. However, misinformation is already circulating on social media. Since the start of the pandemic, social media platforms have faced pressure to combat conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines, and now with a vaccine...
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