Australia will implement the world's first ban on people under the age of 16 using social media later this year—a law that ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

What is Facebook without news? People and publishers in Australia are now finding out. Facebook has barred Australians from finding or sharing news on its service, a dramatic escalation of a fight ...

Over Zoom, Australia’s communications minister, Paul Fletcher, has the air of a man in the middle of a victory speech. He credits his team and the country’s competition regulator for succeeding where ...

Twenty-one years after Facebook's launch, Australia's top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. SYDNEY – More than a dozen years ago, the US Federal Trade Commission sponsored an ominously titled workshop ...

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) will consider blocking all news content from Facebook in Australia if the government forces it to pay licensing fees to media outlets to display links, in line with the ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab has agreed to a A$50 million settlement ($31.85 million), Australia's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, closing long-drawn, expensive legal ...

When Facebook blocked hundreds of Australian emergency services and government pages on its platform during its negotiation with the federal government in 2021, whistleblowers alleged that it was not ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. When Facebook briefly blocked all news from being ...