SOCIAL MEDIA – AUSTRALIA

Are Media announces expanded partnership with Roy Morgan for social media insights

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 21-Jun-23

Are Media has expanded its partnership with Roy Morgan to gather worldwide audience insights from its extensive social media channels that are currently not available anywhere else. Under the partnership, Are Media’s social media audiences across Instagram, Facebook and other social platforms will be included in Roy Morgan’s official Single Source database. Single Source is the world’s most extensive market research database, providing consistent and accurate consumer and market profiles. In securing the deal, Are Media will be the only Australian media partner to offer comprehensive audience insights into its social channels, giving advertisers a more accurate profile of its social audience, to deliver commercially driven social campaigns that engage the right audience. According to SMI data, advertising spend on social media remains the fastest growing digital sector, up 14.7 per cent in 2022.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, ARE MEDIA PTY LTD

Indigenous voice adviser warns vote on knife edge as Liberals say referendum dead without conservatives

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Original article by Josh Butler
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 1-Mar-23

Ed Coper is a director of social change agency Populares and an expert on misinformation. He has warned that the proposed Indigenous Voice to parliament is "really susceptible to misinformation", given that many people now form their opinions based on information they read on social media. Coper argues that while social media companies have become better at removing disinformation, it has usually been widely disseminated by the time they are alerted to its presence on their platforms. Meanwhile, Liberal senator Andrew Bragg says the referendum is set to fail unless the pro-Voice campaign actively targets conservative voters. He notes that the campaign is largely focused on people who already intend to vote ‘yes’ in the referendum, but polls show that only 13 per cent of Liberal voters support the Voice.

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POPULARES, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Defamation reforms: Australian media may not be liable for Facebook comments in future

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Original article by Amanda Meade
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 14-Dec-22

A proposed overhaul of Australia’s uniform defamation laws will include the addition of an "innocent dissemination defence". This would protect individuals and organisations that administer Facebook pages from being sued for defamation over comments that were posted by third parties. The proposed reforms follow a 2021 court ruling which found that media companies could be liable for defamatory comments posted on their Facebook pages by people who read or view their content. The Standing Council of Attorneys-General has given in-principle support to the reforms.

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FACEBOOK, AUSTRALIA. STANDING COUNCIL OF ATTORNEYS-GENERAL

Facebook pulls out all stops to delay cryptocurrency scam case

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Original article by Nick Bonyhady
The Age – Page: Online : 20-Sep-22

Facebook owner Meta is the subject of separate legal action from mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission over cryptocurrency scams. Forrest launched a private criminal case against Meta in February for allegedly failing to stop cryptocurrency investment scams that used his name and image, while the ACCC’s case against Meta allegeds it aided or abetted scammers by hosting their fake ads. Meta’s efforts to supress documents from the ACCC’s case against it have run into problems, but it has made a renewed attempt to delay proceedings in the Federal Court.

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META GROUP INCORPORATED,{SPAC}FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD,{SPAC}AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION,{SPAC}FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Facebook pulls out all stops to delay cryptocurrency scam case

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Original article by Nick Bonyhady
The Age – Page: Online : 20-Sep-22

Facebook owner Meta is the subject of separate legal action from mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission over cryptocurrency scams. Forrest launched a private criminal case against Meta in February for allegedly failing to stop cryptocurrency investment scams that used his name and image, while the ACCC’s case against Meta allegeds it aided or abetted scammers by hosting their fake ads. Meta’s efforts to supress documents from the ACCC’s case against it have run into problems, but it has made a renewed attempt to delay proceedings in the Federal Court.

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META GROUP INCORPORATED,{SPAC}FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD,{SPAC}AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION,{SPAC}FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Forrest’s legal action over Facebook crypto scams

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Original article by John Rolfe
The Daily Telegraph – Page: Online : 22-Dec-21

Facebook is under scrutiny by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission for allowing scammers to place fake advertisements on its digital platforms. The ads feature ‘endorsements’ by high-profile individuals such as Andrew Forrest and Dick Smith to promote scams that have cost some Australians their life savings. Forrest has launched his own legal action against Facebook for allowing his name and image to be used in ads that promote online scams. He first raised concern about the practice in April 2019, and personally wrote to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about the issue in November of that year.

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FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION

Parliamentary inquiry to put behaviour of big tech under scrutiny

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Original article by Michelle Grattan
The Conversation – Page: Online : 1-Dec-21

The House of Representatives’ select committee on social media and online safety will hold an inquiry into large technology companies. Its terms of reference include examining the range of harms that Australians may be exposed to via online platforms such as social media and the risks associated with algorithm-driven content. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are among the technology giants that will be invited to appear before the inquiry, as will Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. The announcement of the inquiry will coincide with the release of an exposure draft of the federal government’s ‘anti-trolling’ bill.

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FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, TWITTER INCORPORATED, INSTAGRAM LLC

Social media’s self-policing plan laughable

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Original article by Paul Smith, Miranda Ward
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 21 & 23 : 12-Oct-21

Public interest groups have dismissed DIGI’s plans to establish an independent panel to oversee the voluntary code of conduct governing misinformation and disinformation that appears on the platforms of technology companies such as Facebook and Google. Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran of Reset Australia says DIGI’s code is little more than a public relations stunt, and she contends that self-regulation of the sector does not work.

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DIGI, FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, GOOGLE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, RESET AUSTRALIA

Corporates too reliant on Facebook

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Original article by David Swan
The Australian – Page: 13 & 17 : 6-Oct-21

Marcus Thompson says Facebook’s global outage highlights the fact that Australian businesses rely too much on the social media giant and many lack an alternative platform to engage with customers. Thompson, the former head of information warfare at the Australian Defence Force, says local companies need to become more self-sufficient and less dependent on offshore-based digital platforms. Localsearch co-founder Daniel Stoten says small businesses must have a presence on all social media sites that are used by their customers, rather than being reliant on one platform. The Facebook outage lasted for nearly six hours, and has been attributed to a faulty configuration change; it also affected WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, and had to be announced on rival platform Twitter.

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FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, WHATSAPP INCORPORATED, INSTAGRAM LLC, FACEBOOK MESSENGER, TWITTER INCORPORATED, LOCALSEARCH

More public figures expected to turn off Facebook comments after Australian defamation ruling

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Original article by Josh Taylor
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 28-Sep-21

The High Court recently ruled that the owners of Facebook pages are liable for defamatory comments made on them. The ruling prompted Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein to announce on 24 September that some posts on his Facebook page would have comments turned off, a feature that Facebook introduced in March. Defamation expert Professor David Rolph says he expects other politicians and public figures will adopt similar strategies to that of Gutwein.

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HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED