Business Vanessa Pappas appointed as TikTok’s interim chief executive Australia’s Vanessa Pappas will step into the top job at embattled social media company, TikTok amid growing diplomatic tensions between the U.S and China.
News & Views We owe our kids a thorough survey of the remote learning model Remote learning during the pandemic intensified our children’s reliance on technology, potentially amplifying gaming and social media addiction and dependence.
News & Views Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny? Research shows one in five Australian women experience degrading content online. This is not ‘harmless’ or ‘normal’, writes Louise Richardson-Self.
News & Views Egypt sentences female TikTok stars to 2 years in prison for “violating public morals” In Egypt, female social media influencers have been sentenced to jail for posting ‘indecent videos’ that according to the state, ‘violate public morals’.
News & Views What if you don’t want to participate in #ChallengeAccepted You may have noticed #ChallengeAccepted coming up in your Instagram feed this week. So what if you don’t want to participate?
News & Views It’s physical, not social distancing. Ramp up the connecting We’re physically seperated but have never been more globally connected by what we’re experiencing. It’s not social distancing
News & Views Chrissy Teigen is the ‘filthy mouthed wife’ we all aspire to be After labelling John Legend as “boring”, Donald Trump took aim at the singer’s wife Chrissy Teigen, referring to her as his “filthy mouthed wife”.
News & Views ‘My Facebook page was disabled after I posted about male terrorism & white supremacy’: How is this right? We need to understand how Facebook and Instagram operate and how they assist white supremacism by censoring those opposing it.
News & Views Hiding the ‘likes’ count on Instagram is one small step but not enough There are enough numbers in life to measure ourselves against. Instagram and other social platform merely add to the pressure to do better.
News & Views Vanity Fair’s takedown of Byron Bay’s ‘Instagram Influencer Mamas’ Carina Chocano’s Vanity Fair feature on Courtney Adamo, Amelia Fullarton & ‘Instagram Influencer Mamas’ in Byron Bay is both beautifully written & scathing.
News & Views Pink Buns: The photos Facebook doesn’t want you to see Facebook has rejected advertisments for the annual Pink Buns campaign the Breast Cancer Network Australia runs with Baker’s Delight.
News & Views Why I’m ditching the super parent fantasy in 2019 Rob Sturrock spent 2018 trying to be a super parent when he could have just appreciated his mere survival. This year he’s ditching the fixation.