Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced new legislation which would force social media groups to publicly identify anonymous trolls if they refuse to take down abusive posts.
Online safety resembles a game of whack-a-mole with “far too many moles to whack”, interim Ofcom chair Maggie Carver said.
The Guardian Australia has launched a machine learning tool which automates story evaluations for contextual ad targeting, seeking to move beyond cookies and other identifiers.
IPSO has announced the appointment of Matt Brown, Director of News and External Relations at TfL, and Michaela McAleer, of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman, to its lay-majority Board.
A New York University study found pre-emptive warnings on Twitter about hate speech reduced the volume of objectionable content by as much as a fifth.
Instagram has begun tests of 60-second Stories, quadrupling the short-form video format's current length of 15 seconds.
Reach has launched Testimony, a true crime email newsletter focusing on unsolved cases covered by its regional reporters.
JPIMedia confirmed The Derbyshire Times has absorbed the Belper News, Ilkeston Advertiser and Ripley & Heanor News sites, a year after the weeklies lost their standalone print editions.
The FT has said that it has seen draft EU legislation which would force web giants such as Facebook and Google to reveal how they target users with political advertising.
IPSO yesterday published ‘The Covid Report: How the British Press is Reporting on the Pandemic’, an analysis of press reporting during the height of the Covid period.
The Financial Times’ latest brand campaign, ‘Letters to this New World’, has been named in the top 25 ‘Most Contagious’ campaigns of the year.
Digital magazine and newspaper subscription app Readly has boosted its content portfolio with the addition of a number of popular titles across its markets over the last month.
The Minderoo Foundation, a federation owned by Australia's richest man, aims to help 18 small publishers agree a collective bargaining arrangement to secure licensing deals with Google and Facebook.
Facebook vice-president of global affairs Sir Nick Clegg said he believes the internet is facing its "Bretton Woods moment", referencing the post-WWII accord which governed international finance.
The hedge fund owner of US newspaper group Tribune Publishing has made a $140m bid for US local media operator Lee Enterprises.
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