Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Peter Williams: Facebook's credibility problem

›
The social media giant you can no longer trust In less than twenty five years Facebook has become a global phenomenon. It’s extraordinary to...
7 comments:
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Ani O'Brien: Ministry of Health leaving X for a dying platform full of furries and CSAM

›
The New Zealand public service is a law unto itself. As someone remarked on X today, the Coalition might be in Government, but they are not ...
3 comments:
Sunday, April 6, 2025

John Klar: Is Social Media Fueling Crime and Violence?

›
Burning, vandalizing, and even defecating on Tesla EVs have become commonplace despite cameras that capture culprits in the act. Such brazen...
4 comments:
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Dr Will Jones: Facebook Dumps “Politically Biased” Fact-Checkers That Have “Destroyed More Trust Than They’ve Created”

›
Facebook is to scrap its fact-checkers after founder Mark Zuckerberg said they have “been too politically biased and have destroyed more tru...
1 comment:
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

David Farrar: Scheme to levy fees on search engines and social media sites

›
How annoyed would NZers be if NZ news media were no longer findable on search engines and social media? Readers will be aware that the Gover...
1 comment:
Friday, October 11, 2024

Dr Eric Crampton: Canada’s example shows how ‘link tax’ bill will fail

›
New Zealand moves inexorably from the ‘faff around’ to the ‘find out’ phase of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill process. On Friday, Goo...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Eric Crampton: The 'shakedown' news legislation that is heading to parliament

›
Shakedown rackets are, thankfully, illegal. Except when government legislates them. In that case, all bets are off. And if I were Facebook, ...
1 comment:
Monday, August 7, 2023

Eric Crampton: Canada a cautionary tale for big tech paying for news

›
Donald Trump convinced himself and a lot of Americans he could build a wall at America’s southern border and make Mexico pay for it. It was ...
1 comment:
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Jeffrey A. Tucker: Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something that Does Not Matter

›
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it’s been quite a wild ride. Thousands of doctors and scientists have been unbanned and are now spea...
3 comments:
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Graham Adams: The no-go areas that are killing mainstream media

›
The failure of mass news outlets to cover debates raging on social media — including transgender and Treaty issues — threatens their surviva...
3 comments:
Monday, March 7, 2022

Muriel Newman: Can you help?

›
As you know, the New Zealand Centre for Political Research administers this Breaking Views blog, as well as running our busy NZCPR.com websi...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

John Samples: Some Reasons to Trust Mark Zuckerberg with Freedom of Speech

›
Last week Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview to Recode. He talked about many topics including Holocaust denial. His remarks on that topi...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Karl du Fresne: How my heart bleeds for Mark Zuckerberg

›
I note that $80 billion was wiped off the value of Facebook’s shares following a scandal over privacy breaches. Oh dear, how sad, nev...
2 comments: