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Meta is getting rid of factchecking. Should you leave Instagram – and what are the alternatives?

Decision relates to just the US so far but it may affect users in Australia who follow a lot of US-based sources

The Guardian - AU

Emails reveal how Labor engineered event to support its own teen social media ban

Exclusive: A senior advisor to the SA premier emailed Jonathan Haidt saying that the state’s social media summit was being run ‘with the intent of building momentum’ for a social media ban.

Crikey

The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’

In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?

The Guardian - AU

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Fears grow Meta will block news on Facebook and Instagram as Australian government faces pressure to act

Publishers and politicians are siding against Meta and urging Labor to force the company to pay for news

The Guardian - AU

Anti-lockdown alliances find new focus in backing voice no campaign

Conspiracy theorists and other opponents of Covid pandemic measures are influencing the referendum debate

The Guardian - AU

What will Palmer’s $2m give the No Camp, and cost Australian voters?

How effective the fossil fuel billionaire and UAP founder’s cash injection will be will depend on how much of a say he has in how it’s used.

Crikey

No campaign runs opposite claims on Indigenous voice across different social media pages

Exclusive: Advance lobby group runs multiple Facebook pages that target different demographics, including one that purports to be a neutral news source

The Guardian - AU

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Sky News Australia’s YouTube videos among 100 flagged for monetising climate disinformation

Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos that spread climate change disinformation or denialism. It didn’t.

Crikey

Should Elon Musk really be afraid of Mastodon?

Think ‘instances’ instead of hashtags, ‘toots’ instead of tweets, and a one-man staff instead of a cartoonish supervillain running the show, and you’ll have Mastodon. Tom Ough investigates whether this nicer, trickier platform could be our big social media salvation

The Independent UK

CrowdTangle lets researchers track Facebook disinformation. So why's it on Meta's chopping block?

Australian researchers are worried they'll lose a key way of tracking disinformation on Facebook, amid reports Meta plans to wind down its CrowdTangle tool.

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