The high court’s decision that the publisher of content on Social Media is responsible for the comments people leave has seen CNN restrict access to their Facebook pages in Australia
Seems a bit of an overreaction from CNN. If the comments on their posts contain false and possibly dangerous misinformation, then they should be legally liable for that. No way around it.
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CNN are of course blaming Facebook, because it wont make moderation “easy”
“We are disappointed that Facebook, once again, has failed to ensure its platform is a place for credible journalism and productive dialogue around current events among its users,” the CNN spokeswoman said in a statement. “CNN will, of course, continue to publish content on our own platforms in Australia and to deliver quality journalism to our audiences around the world.”
It also covers libellous content, and our legal threshold for being able to take action on libel/defamation is quite low
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Why can’t they just switch comments off if it’s too hard to moderate them?
according to WSJ
Facebook declined to disable all comments on CNN’s pages in Australia and instead offered to help CNN disable comments on its posts one by one, the person said.
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I’ve noticed that ACM papers have started to really restrict what posts of theirs you can comment on, with some papers not allowing comments on any post.
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The Guardian would say that despite Twitter being largely an echo chamber for them.
You should’ve read the lack of critical reasoning when K.Murphy left for Albo’s office.
Meta bans RT and associated Russian state media accounts, after the US government accused them of spreading Russian propaganda.
“After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
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Seven boss Anthony De Ceglie slams government for not supporting media
The federal government has failed to follow through on its promise to hold social media platforms to account for the damage they have done to journalism, and to society as a whole, according to Seven West Media’s news boss Anthony De Ceglie.
In a speech to the Melbourne Press Club on Tuesday, De Ceglie will argue that the government has an obligation to ensure mainstream media remains financially viable.
“We are the shining light on the hill in an increasingly dystopian world of conspiracy theorists and deepfakes and anti-vaxxer cookers,” De Ceglie will say in his speech, an excerpt of which has been obtained by The Australian.
Edit: Mumbrella also has an excerpt of De Ceglie’s speech.
The Guardian will stop posting on Twitter - possibly the first media outlet to do so after the US election. Journalists’ personal use and citations in news reporting are not affected.
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