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Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine. Here are 5 ways to spot it

Genuine image of an abandoned Russian tank near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv during this week’s invasion. But social media is rife with fake or misattributed images. Sergey Kozlov/EPA Amid the...

Facebook ads have enabled discrimination based on gender, race and age. We need to know how ‘dark ads’ affect Australians

      AP Photo/Jon Elswick (Photo released by members of the U.S. House Intelligence committee)   Social media platforms are transforming...

What is the metaverse? A high-tech plan to Facebookify the world

  Image: Wacomka / Shutterstock Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social...

Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly shot itself in the foot

 Picture: Michael Reynolds / AAP Facebook on Thursday made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting...

Google’s and Facebook’s loud appeal to users over the news media bargaining code shows a lack of political power

 Image: Shuttlestock Over the past few weeks, Google and Facebook have engaged in desperate attempts to avoid regulation under...

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