Thousands of Chinese Australians get their news on WeChat or RedNote, but there’s evidence disinformation is circulating unchecked.
- Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
There’s really no such thing as one global internet – it all depends on your perspective. But the internet is poised to fracturing even more.
En Chine, la plate-forme WeChat est un véritable canal de distribution d’informations. L’avenir de Facebook lui ressemblera-t-il ?
In China, a lot of news happens entirely inside the WeChat platform. Is this the future for Facebook?
You might have seen reports that the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued cyber security advice ahead of the G20 Leaders Summit in Brisbane this weekend. So under the watchful eye of the media…
Does reading a friend’s happy post on Facebook make you happier? This seems to be the case, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today – we may…
You might have seen this week that there’s a campaign regarding the future of the internet. Its chief proponents? NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, journalist Glenn…
Breaking up is hard to do, especially with social media. But thousands of people are doing just that, and with the new year and its inevitable resolutions just around the corner, it might be a good time…
Organic, cage-free or home-grown? We think about our purchasing ethics in many areas of daily life, but not often about technology. As with any product, though, we should think about the effects of our…
You may have seen reports over the weekend about yet another instalment of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance system - this time a set of slides focused on cracking the Tor network, a…
You’ll have seen the owner of notorious online marketplace Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht, was arrested in a San Francisco public library on Wednesday, California time. But how does the administrator…
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