CANBERRA, Australia—Google is striking deals in Australia to pay for journalism but Facebook is vowing to restrict news sharing as Australian lawmakers consider forcing digital giants into payment agreements. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced a wide-ranging deal with Google Wednesday. Major Australian media organization Seven West Media reached a deal earlier, its rival Nine Entertainment…
Facebook Blocking Users in Australia From Sharing or Seeing News
Facebook on Wednesday started blocking users and companies from distributing or viewing news content, the latest broadside in a rapidly escalating war between lawmakers and Big Tech. Australian elected officials introduced a bill late last year that would force Google and Facebook to negotiate contracts with news publishers, in a bid to stop the technology…
Facebook Blocks Users in Australia From Sharing or Seeing News
Facebook on Wednesday started blocking users and companies from distributing or viewing news content, the latest broadside in a rapidly escalating war between lawmakers and Big Tech. Australian elected officials introduced a bill late last year that would force Google and Facebook to negotiate contracts with news publishers, in a bid to stop the technology…
New Parler CEO: Trump Is Welcome on the Platform
Parler interim CEO Mark Meckler said that former President Donald Trump is welcome on the platform, coming weeks after the former commander-in-chief was suspended from Facebook, Twitter, and other Big Tech-owned websites. “He’s welcome on the platform just like anybody else,” Meckler said of the former president in an interview with Fox News. “We welcome…
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Expresses Concern About COVID-19 Vaccines in Leaked Footage
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made comments last year about COVID-19 vaccines that clash with policies that his platform has implemented, leaked video shows. Zuckerberg said in July 2020: “I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this [vaccine] because we just don’t know the long-term side effects of basically modifying…
Facebook Suspends Australian MP for a Week Over Hydroxychloroquine Posts
Facebook has suspended the account of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Craig Kelly for a week after he allegedly violated their “misinformation and harm policy” by sharing information on hydroxychloroquine. The MP revealed yesterday that the social media giant deleted five of his posts, which featured medical experts’ supports of alternative CCP virus treatments, hydroxychloroquine…
Parler’s New Web Host: Doesn’t Condone All Posts, but Supports Freedom of Speech
The company that helped get Parler back up and running says it may not agree with all the posts on the platform, but it supports freedom of speech. Parler is a social media website that saw an explosion in growth last month when Twitter banned then-President Donald Trump and other conservatives. Shortly thereafter, Amazon Web…
Relaunched Parler’s Free Speech Vision More ‘Entrenched’ Than Ever Before: CEO
The official relaunch of social media platform Parler carries forward the company’s vision of being a space that protects free speech in a way that is “more firm and entrenched than ever before,” interim Chief Executive Mark Meckler told The Epoch Times. “Parler is back up online, and from our perspective, very healthy and robust. We…
Parler CEO Says Social Media App Is Back Online, Gets New Servers
An executive with Parler, a social media platform favored by conservatives, said Monday that it will resume service with new management—coming about a month after Amazon Web Services removed its service from its servers. Interim CEO Mark Meckler said in a news release that the company moved to a new server farm, saying that users…
Social Media App Parler Is Back Online, With New Hosting Service
Parler, a social media platform favored by conservatives, resumed service on Feb. 15 with new management—coming about a month after Amazon Web Services suspended the site from its servers. The company moved to a new server farm, said interim Chief Executive Mark Meckler in a statement. He said that new users should be able to sign…
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta