racism
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January 26, 2020 message
January 26th is Australia’s national day. The name “Australia Day” was adopted nationally in 1935, and it wasn’t until 1994 that the date became a national public holiday. […]
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Instagram needs help
UPDATE: Within a few days of publication of this briefing all three accounts listed below had been closed by Instagram Instagram has been growing rapidly since its launched […]
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Will.i.am and sunlight
On Saturday American musician William Adams, better known as Will.i.am, the frontman for the Black Eyed Peas, was on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney. The plane was […]
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Alt-right Facebook memes pushed anti-Labor message
The Sydney Morning Herald talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the role that social media can play in spreading political misinformation.
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Netizen Report: As water levels rise, Iran’s ban on messaging apps is slowing emergency relief for flood victims
Global Voice cites our CEO Andre Oboler when discussing Australia’s new law requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent content.
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Laws targeting terror videos on Facebook and YouTube ‘rushed’ and ‘knee-jerk’, lawyers and tech industry say
ABC News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the new laws requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent material on their platform.
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Anning in firing line from new FB ban
SBS News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s new policies on racist content, and about the importance of local knowledge when regulating social media platforms.
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Christchurch shootings fuel politics of race in NZ, Australia
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to China Daily Global about white supremacy in the wake of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand.
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Social media giants face regulation as publishers, not just postmen
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to Financial Review about new regulations for social media companies in the wake of the Christchurch attack.
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Being Australian
Some Australian have ancestors who came here over 50,000 years ago and were, according to research published in Nature, the worlds earliest explorers. The cultures of our Indigenous […]