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The era of free news for Facebook and Google may soon be over
Australia’s competition regulator will this month publish draft rules forcing Facebook and Google to share revenue generated from news with the original publishers.
The Week That Was: Internet connectivity and fake news make local headlines while Facebook faces #StopHateforProfit reckoning
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission says the increase in compounds issued to telcos proves its commitment in improving service.
Amazon says email to employees banning TikTok was a mistake
Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake.
As TikTok competitors swoop in amid global pushback, is the short video app losing its ‘first mover advantage’?
In the week after India banned TikTok, negative sentiment against the app on social media rose to 80% on average from 55% a week before. Meanwhile, Indian alternatives are gaining traction and Western apps are also launching short video features.
Elderly people in Hong Kong main targets as phone scams rise sharply, with victims losing HK$185mil in just five months
One woman borrowed heavily to pay HK$2.4mil to scammers posing as mainland officials. Wan Chai bank employee foiled attempt to get 80-year-old woman to open new online account.
Back to work? Not without a check-in app, immunity passport
To go anywhere in Singapore these days, Joni Sng needs mobile phone apps and other technologies – a QR code to enter shops, a digital map to see how crowded a mall or park is, and a tracker to show if she was near someone infected with the coronavirus.
Virus pushes Singapore politicians into social media square off
Packed rallies are out, along with their cheers and jeers. In comes the Internet, with its memes and trolls.
Fake profiles and coordination with Venezuela: How Cuba’s propaganda spreads on Twitter
Twitter user Mariam Gómez claims to be “faithful to the homeland and the Cuban Revolution” on her account @mpgcibermambisa. But her profile picture, a woman showing her bare back, comes not from a real person but from an article about how gradual tanning is back.
Opinion: Fake reviews should stay online, researchers say. I’m not so sure
Perhaps it was inevitable that in this strange era of ‘alternative facts’ and fake claims of ‘fake news’, someone would make the case for why bogus online reviews are a good thing.
Trump, Biden both disparage Facebook but won’t quit buying ads
US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden share a disdain for Facebook Inc and say the speech it publicizes should be regulated. But neither one is ready to quit the troubled platform.