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Earlier this year, social media company Meta decided to remove the built-in News tab on Facebook and Instagram in Australia. Facebook’s News tab was removed in France, the UK and Germany in 2023.  Meta claims to have come to this decision due to low user engagement with politics and news content on their websites.  However, …

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Once seen a tool of salvation for news organisations to expand audience reach, the dominating economic interests of social media organisations have resulted in the honeymoon between media and social media ending. This has seen news organisations lobbying government for regulations to deal with the abuse of market power as Facebook’s control of its algorithm …

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Is our News and TV culturally outdated?

Currently, in Australian News and TV according to Media Diversity Australia’s Report ‘Who gets to tell Australian Stories 2.0?’, there is an over-representation of people of Anglo-Celtic background- with a statistic of 78%. Whilst the non-european background remain under-represented. Alana Su-Navratil Spoke with Mariam Veiszadeh, Chief Executive Officer at Media Diversity Australia to discuss the …

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