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Is It Pointless For The ACCC To Take On Facebook And Google?
Piers talks with digital marketer Michael Simonetti about the Australian Competition and…
Competition Watchdog Takes On Google And Facebook
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pressuring Google and Facebook to…
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Twitter
After presidential tweet “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” was deemed…
Building Influence On Social Media (Part 2)
Activist Simon Mulvany pursued his passions through very effective use of social…
Building Influence On Social Media (Part 1)
Activist Simon Mulvany built up big followings on Facebook and Instagram and…
Much Freer Speech On Twitter
The billionaire Tesla CEO successfully fended off a monster US$190 million defamation…
Is The Clock TikTok’ing For Spotify?
A new music streaming service from TikTok’s parent company Bytedance could challenge…
Facebook Zealots Likened To Drug Addicts
A recent Michigan State University study published in the Journal of Behavioural…
Weaponising Social Media
US tech giants are cracking down on misuse of their platforms. Twitter…
Australian Lawmakers Focus On US Tech Giants
The Feds are moving to clamp down on Google and Facebook –…
Josh Hawley’s War On Big Tech
The Republican Senator for Missouri says social media is “a parasite on…
Facebook Calls For Global, Unified Regulation Of Social Media
The lawless wild west internet has failed. Now is the time to…
Can Viral Extremism Be Stopped?
In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, law makers around the world…
UK Parliament Demands Tough Regulation Of Social Media
The Disinformation and ‘Fake News’ Final Report has been published on parliament.uk.…
Stanford Study Shows Enduring Benefits Of Quitting Facebook
2844 people were surveyed after giving up Facebook for a month. Many…
Instagram Memes Threaten Australian Democracy
Are elections downunder vulnerable to manipulation like the 2016 US election? Are…
Government Encryption Bill Threatens The Future Of Tech In Australia
How the rushed Assistance and Access Bill 2018 risks job losses and…
US Senate Report Details Russian Pro-Trump Disinformation Campaign
How Russia’s extended assault on US democracy used computational propaganda to mislead…
The Defunct Google Plus Service Was Hacked In March 2018
Google Plus, Google’s failed social networking platform, suffered a significant security breach…
Changing Usage Of Facebook
A survey of British school kids showed that 63% would be happy…
An Awful Week For Elon Musk
After a lead diver in the Thai cave rescue Vern Unsworth told…
Tips And Tricks On How To Capitalise On Social Media
Simon Mulvany of Save The Bees Australia has single-handedly run a successful…
Trump White House Accused Of Breaching Data Security Protocols
While Trump’s use of the secret messaging service Confide may breach federal…
Europe’s New GDPR Privacy Rules
If you’ve received updated terms of service emails lately from the likes…
Google Chat Tries To Muscle In On Messaging
Will another attempt to unify Android users under a new messaging service…
The Zuck Faces Congress (and how to de-stress from Facebook)
A Queensland University study finds that limiting time on Facebook reduces levels…
The Trouble With Facebook
The social network stands accused of allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting…
Large Apple Investors Urge The Company To Think Differently About Kids
In an open letter of January 6, 2018, JANA Partners and The…
Facebook Hears Your Words, Then Serves Targeted Ads
The social network already knows so much about you. With sophisticated AI,…
Raising Tech Safe Kids
Suggestions for responsibly managing your kids’ use of technology. Further Resources eSafety…
How To Monitor Encrypted Communications
Governments want access to WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging technologies that have…
Australia Leading The World In Smart Phone Addiction
The Antisocial app from Bugbean shows just how bad your addiction is…
A Facebook Reckoning In The Wind?
The social titan faces a groundswell of concern over the super granular…
Is Facebook Turning You Into An Idiot?
Life after Facebook? A Bridge Ratings study finds more and more of…
Instagram’s TOS Simplified
A UK law firm has translated Instagram’s terms of service so anyone…
The Growing Problem Of Fake News
Manipulated news dissemination is getting easier as confidence erodes in mainstream media…
The Enormous Responsibility Of Being Facebook
Social network criticised for influencing US election amid allegations of dodging tax.
Apple’s Best iPhone App Of 2015 Is Periscope
The live video streaming service wins a prestigious award from Apple.
Facebook Embraces Live Streaming
The ability to broadcast video in real time from a smart phone…
Does Facebook Make You Unhappy?
A study by Copenhagen’s Happiness Research Institute finds giving up Facebook leads…
Up Periscope
The Periscope app promises to enable people to stream audio and video…
Russian Selfies
Russian fascination with taking risky selfies prompts a dire warning from police.
Blaming, Naming and Shaming – on FaceBook
Things can go horribly wrong when people jump to conclusions, take the…
Google’s John Ball On The Web And SMBs
John Ball, Google Director of Small Business AU & NZ, led a…
Implications of Facebook’s Social Experiment
FaceBook conducts a controversial ‘social experiment’ on its users. Suggests that emotions…
Backlash To Facebook Experiment
Some people were none too happy with what FaceBook did behind their…
The Right To Be Forgotten
Lawmakers and Google struggle for appropriate balance between supporting freedom of expression…