by admin | Nov 16, 2024 | big tech, Internet News, News, Social media, The Conversation
The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge public debate about whether there is sufficient direct evidence of harm to introduce this regulation. The players in this debate include...
by admin | Oct 6, 2024 | Apple, big tech, facebook, Internet News, Meta, News, research, Social media, The Conversation
For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when in 2023 the journal Science published a study that found...
by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | Africa, big tech, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming News, Industry News, News
With Africa’s gaming industry approaching a milestone revenue of $1 billion in 2024, giant tech firms are beginning to show excitement about its growth potential. African gaming has been boosted by increased internet access across the continent, reports VoANews. From...
by admin | Jan 6, 2024 | big tech, Business News, Column, Columns, facebook, Google, Meta, News, Toby Shapshak, Twitter
In a portent of things to come in 2024, Google lost the first of many major antitrust lawsuits on 11 December 2023. After a month in a San Francisco courtroom, Google was found guilty of all 11 counts of anticompetitive behaviour by a jury. Further arguments will be...
by admin | Nov 17, 2023 | big tech, Bing, Business News, DuckDuck Go, Google, Internet News, News, privacy, search engines, Startpage.com, Stuff Guides
If you’ve been a long-time Google user, you may have noticed recently that Google’s search results are not quite as relevant to what you actually searched for. You might even have noticed that they appear more commercially-minded than what you were actually looking...
by admin | Oct 21, 2023 | Big EU, big tech, Column, Columns, data, News, privacy, Toby Shapshak
The uncontrolled power of US Big Tech firms has finally met its match with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The wide-ranging Digital Services Act was promulgated last year and took effect on 25 August 2023. History will show this is when the Old World...