Internet

Facebook - freshly rebadged as ‘Meta’ - gives local news media content huge extra reach, but it covers none of the cost of creating it while snaring the bulk of the digital ad revenue it… Audio

Facebook's new parent company, Meta, has announced a programme for journalism in New Zealand, in which they'll provide grants and coaching to news media.

It follows action in February by Facebook to… Audio

Mark Zuckerberg has announced Facebook is changing its name to Meta.

It's demoting the Facebook brand to just one of the company's subsidiaries, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook was… Audio

An Austrian museum believes creative expression is being stifled in the social media age, after their Instagram and TikTok accounts were suspended for showing nude art.

So, they've taken to one of… Audio

A lawyer who specialises in ACC claims says that RNZ reports that employees in Hamilton mocking claimants' injuries is symptomatic of an organisational culture that is harsh, disconnected, and lacking… Audio

ACC is commissioning an independent review into privacy and claimant data sharing practices in the organisation.

This decision by the Board of ACC is in response to an RNZ investigation which… Audio

A group of ACC call centre workers shared details, and made fun of, people's injuries in a private Snapchat group called 'ACC Whores'.

One of the posts shared among more than a dozen employees… Audio

Facebook is "unquestionably making hate worse".

That's the scathing claim from whistleblower Frances Haugen, who's been giving evidence to UK politicians working on the country's Online Safety Bill.

Big tech platforms have failed to tackle the misinformation and toxicity they spread - and their dominance of the market for digital media revenue is becoming increasingly obvious. Australia's… Video, Audio

Emma Vitz tells Jesse about the 'ordering estimation issues' she's uncovered. Audio

Pacific Islands without high-speed internet - or any internet at all - are eager to be connected to the rest of the world, but geopolitical tensions threaten to derail planned infrastructural work… Audio

Whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic integrity team, has been testifying at an internet safety hearing on Capitol Hill.

Her explosive testimony has seen her… Audio

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all offline in a global outage.

The popular social media apps all went down at about 4.45am (NZT), with both Facebook and Instagram using rival platform Twitter… Audio