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On the night of the alleged stabbing of a Sydney priest, the spread of misinformation escalated violence faster than news outlets could report the storyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt took less than 30 minutes for a video of an alleged stabbing attack at a church in western Sydney to snake its way through WhatsApp groups across the city.As chaos was still unfolding inside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley last Monday night, clips from the alleged attack – during a livestreamed memorial service where a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – were being shared. Continue reading...

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One of the best tools we have to clean up this mess is already in our handsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThere are once again calls for the government to Do Something about misinformation online, following the recent stabbings at Bondi Junction and the immediate spread of speculation and false claims on social media.The previously ditched misinformation bill appears to be back on the cards. Even Peter Dutton has indicated support despite loud criticism from the Coalition towards the draft legislation last year. The original bill was itself, ironically, engulfed in misleading comments (misinformation, if you will). It remains to be seen what a revamped bill will contain.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

Elon Musk’s X says it opposes demands from Australia’s eSafety commissioner that it remove the content globallyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSocial media platform X says it has complied with Australian federal court orders to remove footage of the Wakeley church stabbing, even as the video itself appeared in a post directly below the announcement, visible to users in Australia.The company says it complied with the law by “restricting” some posts for Australian users. It also argues that the posts should not have been banned in Australia at all, and that the Australian government should not be able to censor what users posted in other countries.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

App’s ‘secret source’ algorithm reportedly core to operations of parent company, which sources say make a sale highly unlikelyByteDance would prefer to shut down TikTok rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the US, four sources said.The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance’s overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely, said the sources close to the parent. Continue reading...

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Snap’s share surged 21% in after-hours trading as app’s users increased by 422 million, bringing in $1.2bn in revenueShares in the owner of Snapchat surged 21% during after-hours trading after the social media group beat Wall Street’s expectations for quarterly revenue and user growth.Improvements to Snap’s advertising system are delivering results faster than anticipated, the company said. Continue reading...

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As the Australian government faces off with Elon Musk and his social media platform X, a global battle to better regulate the world’s biggest social platforms is kicking off.Nour Haydar speaks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about the trouble with regulating global social media giants, and how it will affect the future of journalismRead more: Continue reading...

High court judge orders actor turned politician to pay £90,000 damages to each individual for social media libelThe actor and rightwing activist Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay £90,000 each in damages to two people he libelled by referring to them as “paedophiles” on social media.A high court judge made the order in London on Thursday. Fox lost his high court libel battle in January, after Mrs Justice Collins Rice ruled that he had defamed two men by calling them paedophiles after they labelled him a racist. Continue reading...

ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay.

For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

This week, the Government Property Agency brought together Civil Service leaders to exchange ideas, debate trends and inform how the GPA delivers its property services. The GPA is leading one of the country’s biggest and most ambitious workplace renewal programmes for its clients – delivering a smaller, better connected, better quality, and greener property estate The post Event explores how the government is setting new office standards for civil servants appeared first on Workplace Insight.

While we often view personality as a fixed entity, a new study suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have left a subtle but enduring mark on some aspects of our personalities. Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the research suggests that while significant personality changes weren’t widespread, conscientiousness levels generally increased throughout the pandemic, while The post The pandemic may have changed our personalities, say researchers appeared first on Workplace Insight.

Prime office rents in major cities around the world have risen 1.1 percent in the past year (Q1 2023 to Q1 2024) while tenants’ ‘all-in’ net effective costs (rent plus fit-out costs) have risen 2.4 percent, according to Savills, as the structural trend towards seeking high quality premium office space continues into 2024. The real The post Office rent, costs and utilisation rates rise as firms focus on prime space appeared first on Workplace Insight.

Elon Musk is at war with Australia — in particular Australia's online safety regulator — due to videos that were circulating on his platform after an alleged stabbing at a church in Sydney last week. After the eSafety commissioner requested all social media platforms to remove video of the stabbing from their platforms, X made the videos unavailable to view within Australia, but they're still available to watch both outside of Australia. Now, X and the eSafety commissioner are fighting it out in court, while X's owner Elon Musk continues to fight it out online. Guardian Australia's Josh Taylor explains what's going on behind the tweetsElon Musk’s X v Australia’s online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown orderBishop will argue video of his Sydney church stabbing should not be removed from Elon Musk’s X, court hears Continue reading...

A bill passed by Congress and signed by Biden requires owner ByteDance to sell or face a US ban – it’s its biggest threat yetSenate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell itThe House of Representatives passed a bill that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States. The Senate passed it less than a week later. Joe Biden signed it a day after the Senate voted yes.TikTok is facing its biggest existential threat yet in the US. The app was banned in Montana last year, but courts found that prohibition unconstitutional, and it never went into effect. Continue reading...

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