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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the launch of Threads, an app built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations.

Some US federal agencies have been banned from contacting social media companies to push for removal of material the government deems inappropriate.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is set to launch a rival to Twitter with the name Threads on Thursday, even as the Elon Musk-owned app is hit by fresh turmoil.

Google has issued a warning to the Canadian Government, saying it would "remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada, and that C-18 will also make it untenable for us to continue offering our Google News Showcase product in Canada".

Online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google could find themselves in hot water and pay millions of fines if they fail to clear disinformation and curb fake news—a combative stance that sees the Albanese Government holding these tech giants accountable for spreading harmful content.

The Canadian parliament has approved a law that will force digital platforms such as Facebook and Google to pay publishers for the news they use.

Will cancel culture be "cancelled" in Singapore, and will it prevail in Australia?

The Irish unit of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been handed a €1.2 billion fine (A$1.95 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Authority over its transfers of personal data from the EU to the US since 16 July 2020.

The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has vowed to continue to support reforms to protect consumers and businesses following a new report into social media services which has highlighted a range of harms occurring across the services.

GUEST OPINION: The gains by Snapchat, TikTok, and Pinterest were actually more dramatic than the traffic losses for Twitter and Facebook.

Is Meta heading to the Metaverse or are cracks starting to form?

Search giant Google has been testing the blocking of news for some users in Canada ahead of the date for online news legislation to come into force.

GUEST OPINION: Facebook lost ad market share in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to an analysis by Similarweb Investor Intelligence. Meanwhile, most of TikTok’s ad share gains appear to be coming at the expense of Facebook and its parent company, Meta Platforms Inc.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates predicts five key technology trends that will impact the Australian and New Zealand retail market in 2023.

Twitter has announced a new policy that links to other social media sites are now banned, and accounts that try to direct Twitter users to other platforms will be suspended.

In the light of the latest round of GDPR fines, it would seem that Meta (Facebook’s parent company) is not quite the darling child that they thought they were.

Facebook owner Meta has caved to demands by the German national competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt, which insisted that its VR headset products conform to open platform requirements in Germany.

GUEST OPINION: Many companies, including GitHub, Credit Karma, Intuit and PayPal use GraphQL, which is a query language for application programming interfaces and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data.

Forget the great resignation, it's the mass layoff. Experienced tech industry workers have long enjoyed being on the supply end of a demand-and-supply chain in their favour. Yet, a spate of mass terminations across industry giants is gaining momentum.

Meta, the parent organisation of social media behemoth Facebook, has announced it will sack more than 11,000 employees, about 13% of the total workforce.