Home Social Media

Social Media

Random

Ile de Brehat

Social Media

Facebook’s Australia ban threatens to leave Pacific without key news source

February 21, 2021

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

Social Media

Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon

Social Media

NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in Hawai’i, says Luxon

Dr Shailendra Singh

Social Media

When mainstream media fails to hold truth to power, social media is the saviour

ABC chair Kim Williams

Social Media

Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it

The indigenous Kanaky flag adopted in 1983 and usually flown alongside the French tricolour under the Nouméa Accord

Social Media

Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats

July 17, 2025

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape pictured in September 2024

Social Media

Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape

Pacific Media Watch -

April 7, 2025

Indonesian tweets in Papua

Social Media

Suspicious ‘Papuan’ tweets promoted Indonesian government’s agenda

September 7, 2022

Kiingi Tuheitia is laid to rest at Taupiri maunga

Social Media

Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...

September 8, 2024

Hong Kong police arrest Stand First editors

Social Media

Hong Kong indy Stand News shuts down in face of Chinese...

January 8, 2022

Palestinian protesters at the media vigil tonight calling for solidarity with the Gazan journalists

Social Media

Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards

Pacific Media Watch -

May 24, 2024

Maria Ressa of Rappler

Social Media

#HoldTheLine Coalition welcomes new dismissal of cyber-libel charge against Rappler’s Maria...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 14, 2021

Protesters hold aloft an image of a baby dying from starvation outside the Washington headquarters of Fox News

Social Media

As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2025

National Federation Party (NFP) general-secretary Seni Nabou (right) and FijiFirst party general-secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Social Media

NFP party chief’s challenge to FijiFirst over election complaint – ‘bring...

July 14, 2022

Social Media

RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 26, 2021

Fiji journalists at a sexual harassment seminar

Social Media

Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2024

Rainbow Warrior host Niamh O'Flynn talks to author David Robie in the ship's mess as part of the virtual tour

Social Media

Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior

Pacific Media Watch -

July 10, 2025

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

Social Media

Opposition MP Allan Bird claims his ‘life under threat’ after PM...

March 11, 2024

Progressive journalist and presenter Mehdi Hasan

Social Media

Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2025

It would be clearly unwise for New Zealand to threaten or cut aid to Kiribati

Social Media

NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend

Pacific Media Watch -

February 1, 2025

Communications researcher Khairiah A. Rahman

Social Media

PMC communications researcher named on Meta Aotearoa panel

November 12, 2021

Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)

Social Media

‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late,...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2025

Mai TV's Stanley Simpson

Social Media

Fiji media’s Stan Simpson blasts ‘hypocrites’ in social media clash...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 8, 2025

How the PNG Post-Courier reported the social media threat

Social Media

Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots

Pacific Media Watch -

January 16, 2024

Bob Howarth (centre), a former PNG Media Council chair

Social Media

Learn from Timor-Leste ‘freedom’, says former PNG media council head

Pacific Media Watch -

February 17, 2023

Social Media

The National welcomes government claim of no plan to control media

February 28, 2023

Protesters walk with flags on the grounds around Parliament building

Social Media

RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest

Pacific Media Watch -

February 23, 2022

12 3...12 Page 1 of 12

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Social Media

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

Social Media

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Pro-independence advocate Emmanuel Tjibaou, one of the two MPs representing New Caledonia at the Assembly

Decolonisation

French National Assembly rejects New Caledonia’s constitutional reform

Pope Leo and US President Donald Trump

Asia Report

Pope’s message for peace: ‘The Church cannot remain silent when power...

A pro-Kanak independence rally for New Caledonia

Decolonisation

Thousands take to Nouméa streets ahead of French Parliament debate on...

Suara Papua and the Human Rights Monitor group allege Indonesian security forces have indiscriminately opened fire in a series of villages in Moanemani

Asia Report

At least five Papuans reported dead as violence explodes in Dogiyai

EDITOR'S PICKS

The two primary architects of a controversial war

Analysis

Monsters of war – the men who have put the world...

Protesters at a New Zealand rally against the US-Israel war on Iran and the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

NZ’s Peters called on to stress Palestine ‘open wound’ with Rubio

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira

Decolonisation

Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

"Wars end when the people with the power to end them decide the cost of continuing exceeds the cost of stopping"

Analysis

Richard David Hames: When will we make war untenable for...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

The two primary architects of a controversial war

Analysis

Monsters of war – the men who have put the world...

Protesters at a New Zealand rally against the US-Israel war on Iran and the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

NZ’s Peters called on to stress Palestine ‘open wound’ with Rubio

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira

Decolonisation

Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

Suara Papua and the Human Rights Monitor group allege Indonesian security forces have indiscriminately opened fire in a series of villages in Moanemani

Asia Report

At least five Papuans reported dead as violence explodes in Dogiyai