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‘Let’s get to work’: Insider testimony opens door to Facebook regulation
There have been lots of talk and little action in the US when it comes to regulating social media giants such as Facebook. That could be about to change.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion & Perspectives
‘Let’s get to work’: Insider testimony opens door to Facebook regulation
There have been lots of talk and little action in the US when it comes to regulating social media giants such as Facebook. That could be about to change.
Matthew Knott
North America Correspondent
The beginning of something bigger: Signs the pandemic is reviving the centre-left
Recent victories around the world have given rise to speculation that the pandemic has unleashed forces that favour progressive parties.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Jacinda Ardern gives up on COVID-zero
New Zealand’s coronavirus elimination dream is dead. The government must now motivate more people to vaccinate.
Henry Cooke
Stuff chief political reporter
North America
Analysis
Social media
‘Let’s get to work’: Insider testimony opens door to Facebook regulation
There have been lots of talk and little action in the US when it comes to regulating social media giants such as Facebook. That could be about to change.
- by Matthew Knott
‘Harms children’: Whistleblower testifies that Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits’ over people
The chair of the committee scrutinising Facebook said the social media giant was facing its “Big Tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth”.
- by Matthew Knott
Europe
Dubai’s ruler ordered phones of ex-wife and lawyers to be hacked, UK court says
- by Michael Holden and Andrew MacAskill
Updated
Nobel Prize
‘Huge surprise’: Nobel in chemistry honours pair for developing new way to make molecules
- by David Keyton and Frank Jordans
Asia
India’s top court orders $923 compensation for each COVID death
In a nation where the official COVID death toll is approaching 450,000, the payment has been agreed as a way to help families cope with their loss.
- by Suchitra Mohanty
Tony Abbott in Taiwan to build support among ‘like-minded countries’
The former prime minister will meet with President Tsai Ing-Wen and her National Security Council to bolster Australia’s relationship with the democratic island.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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- by Maria Cheng
WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuse during Ebola crisis, report finds
- by Emma Farge and Hereward Holland