SOCIAL MEDIA – AUSTRALIA

Regulator slams Facebook over breach

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Original article by Tom McIlroy
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 21-Mar-18

Australia’s Information Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has advised that he is seeking clarification from Facebook as to whether the personal data of local users was compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica registered an Australian office in 2015, and it has been revealed that executives of the data analytics firm held meetings with Social Services Minister Dan Tehan and Liberal Party officials in April 2017. The firm is also believed to have met with Australian Labor Party officials. The Greens’ Jordon Steele-John says MPs should disclose any links with the firm.

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FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, AUSTRALIA. OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PRIVACY COMMISSIONER, CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, REPUBLICAN PARTY (UNITED STATES), BREITBART NEWS, SCL GROUP

Sharp rise in social media abuse calls for defamation law reform

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Original article by Dana McCauley
The Australian – Page: Online : 12-Mar-18

The proportion of defamation cases emanating from digital publication – be it social media, a blog or a news web site – has risen from 17 per cent to 53 per cent over the 10 years to 2017, according to the Centre for Media Transition at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Centre also found that the majority of "digital defamation" cases over the period between 2013 and 2017 did not involve paid journalists. Peter Fray, professor of journalism practice at UTS, claims people are becoming addicted to defamation, and that Australian defamation laws need to change.

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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, GOOGLE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, BAUER MEDIA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, PRESS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA

Media chiefs hail digital inquiry

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Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: 19 : 27-Feb-18

Media industry executives are supportive of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s inquiry into the digital media sector. News Corp Australia executive chairman Michael Miller says it looks forward to actively participating in the inquiry, while Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner says the company is keen to express its views. Miller says the inquiry represents an opportunity to reform the digital media sector into one that offers the opportunity for all participants to compete on a "more even playing field"

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AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, NEWS CONNECT PTY LTD, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, AMAZON.COM INCORPORATED, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED, TWITTER INCORPORATED, SNAPCHAT INCORPORATED, APPLE INCORPORATED

Social media drives up insurance costs

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Original article by James Frost
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 17 : 11-Dec-17

The insurance sector is seemingly an industry under siege, with its inclusion in Australia’s royal commission into the financial services sector its latest woe. Online calculators and comparison sites are making it easier for consumers to switch policies. Richard Enthoven, the chairman of insurance company Greenstone and the founder of insurance firm Hollard, points to social media as another cause of the industry’s problems. He contends that the practice of unhappy insurance customers complaining about their experience on Facebook and the like is pushing up the cost of insurance premiums.

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GREENSTONE LIMITED, HOLLARD INSURANCE GROUP, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, TWITTER INCORPORATED, INSTAGRAM LLC, COMMINSURE, KPMG AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

Mag ads in Vogue despite Instagram hype

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Original article by Dana McCauley
The Australian – Page: 26 : 11-Dec-17

The University of South Australia’s Professor Byron Sharp says traditional forms of advertising are still more effective than social media marketing. This is demonstrated by the fact that fashion designer Kristian Chase generated just two online sales of a swimsuit that two Instagram influencers promoted, despite the fact that one post attracted about 11,000 "likes". In contrast, Chase generated sales of nearly 700 in one month by placing a full-page advertisement for the swimsuit in the print edition of "Vogue" magazine.

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, INSTAGRAM LLC, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, ACQUA BLUE, HEAVEN SWIMWEAR, TRIBE HOLDINGS LIMITED

Windsor apology after Mundine defamed on Twitter

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Original article by Joe Kelly
The Australian – Page: 2 : 29-Nov-17

Tony Windsor has apologised to indigenous leader Warren Mundine after the latter claimed comments made by Windsor on Twitter amounted to defamation. Windsor, the former member for the federal seat of New England, had made the comments while watching Mundine on the ABC’s "Q&A" program on 27 November. Mundine said Windsor had implied he was "in the pocket" of mining company Adani. Windsor used Twitter to apologise to Mundine, and deleted the offending tweet.

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AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TWITTER INCORPORATED, ADANI MINING PTY LTD

Seven tries to gag reporter’s critical tweet

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Original article by Dana McCauley
The Australian – Page: 11 : 26-Oct-17

The Seven Network has declined to comment on claims that it has asked ex-employee Amy Taeuber to delete a tweet which directs Twitter users to an article she wrote for the MamaMia website. Lawyers have written to Taeuber on Seven’s behalf requesting the tweet’s removal. The article had been highly critical of Seven, and blamed unnamed female employees of the network for her dismissal after she made a sexual harassment complaint.

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SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, MAMAMIA.COM.AU PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

State of the Nation: Media Report – the audience is transforming

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Aug-17

Roy Morgan Research CEO Michele Levine and leading futurist Dr. Ross Honeywill presented the latest State of the Nation: Media Report in Melbourne and Sydney in August. The report looks at challenges and opportunities facing the industry as the rate of change speeds up and consumers explore new ways of engaging with media, including the impact of key disruptive trends powered by digital innovation. Levine says the disruptive trends sweeping a growing media industry are transforming the ways Australians consume media and, in an age when everyone is always "on", it is vital that media companies connect directly with their audiences and know exactly who their audiences really are. She adds that the data reveals that traditional media enjoy high levels of trust, while their newer social-media centric competitors do not. The importance of building this trust in a future overwhelmed by fake news and consumer choice is more important than ever for retaining and building audiences.

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Google ‘misled’ Senate on revenue

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Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: 1 & 2 : 23-Aug-17

Executives from Google and Facebook appeared before a Senate committee on 22 August. Google’s MD for Australia and New Zealand, Jason Pellegrino, told the inquiry into the future of public-interest journalism that the digital giant boasted gross advertising revenue of $1.1bn in Australia in 2016. Senator Nick Xenophon questioned this figure, citing advertising industry estimates which suggest that Google’s annual revenue was around $A3bn. Meanwhile, Facebook said its gross revenue in Australia was $A326m in 2016.

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GOOGLE INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, NICK XENOPHON TEAM, MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL, MORGAN STANLEY AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Aussies don’t trust social media: report

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Original article by Angus Livingston
The Australian – Page: Online : 16-Aug-17

Roy Morgan Research’s State of the Nation Media Report shows that TV is still the main source of news for 69 per cent of Australians, while TV is the most trusted source of news for 41.5 per cent. Meanwhile, 32 per cent of Australians identify social media as their main source of news, although just four per cent say social media is their most trusted source of news. Print and digital newspapers are the main source of news for 48 per cent of Australians, while they are the most trust source of news for 25 per cent.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED