My Feed, My Way: Australia gives its tech users an algorithm off-switch
Social media platforms will have to give users a clear choice to go for a feed showing posts from friends, creators and accounts they follow...
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META and youth addiction: A problematic affair
The social media conglomerate has been facing legal heat on a global scale, in terms of improperly collecting and using children's personal data...
Why 60% of social media child safety features fail to deliver
Independent research finds Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube promising protections for young users that do not function, cannot be found, or do not exist at all...
How to spot a deepfake video: Here is the tutorial
Deepfakes are already appearing on social media feeds and can be broadcast on television news segments...
Creator economy monetises isolation
The creator economy is not a trend to be dabbled in but a market condition to be mastered...
Australia enforces world’s first under-16 social media ban
Young Australians, who have grown up using social media, faced the prospect of losing access to their favourite apps with sadness, humour and disbelief...
China’s auto industry faces scrutiny
China’s emphasis on boosting sales for job creation and growth comes at the cost of profitability and healthy competition...
Can Bluesky stay small and win?
Beyond its sizable liberal fan base, Bluesky still has a way to go before becoming profitable and widely used...
Business Leader of the Week: Meet Zhang Yiming, ByteDance founder & China’s new richest
Following a brief period at Microsoft, Zhang Yiming started creating his applications and started several start-ups, one of which was a portal for real estate searches...
Singapore’s Sea to invest more in e-com platform Shopee
Last year, Shopee revoked a number of job offers for positions at its headquarters in Singapore...