Tag: Twitter
NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’
Pacific Media Watch
Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately.
A media...
Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesia has protested to the Fiji government after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met with a Papuan independence leader in a morale boost...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Suspicious ‘Papuan’ tweets promoted Indonesian government’s agenda
ANALYSIS: By David Engel, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has analysed thousands of suspicious tweets posted in 2021 relating...
Journalism groups brand Musk’s Twitter deal ‘bad news’ for media freedom
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Groups representing journalists around the world have expressed concern that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's move to buy Twitter would damage media...
Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ
RNZ News
Pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis says her re-activated emergency MIQ application has been approved, and she will return to New Zealand in March.
Deputy Prime...
Journalists are not going to stop tweeting. But should media outlets...
By Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
“Not a great week for journalism at the ABC”, News Corp’s Sharri Markson tweeted earlier this month, when the...
Democratic struggle won’t end with ITE law revision, says Koman
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent in Jakarta
It was September 2019, and exiled Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman was enjoying her final...
To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a...
Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait...
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
Amid the chaos in the US Capitol, stoked largely by rhetoric from President Donald Trump, Twitter has...
Lone dissenting Filipino judge – ‘Why I voted against martial law’
By JV Arcena of InterAksyon in Manila
Saying the Philippines needs to wage the long, hard fight against terrorism but cannot do it at the...
More than hashtags needed to defy terror in Indonesia
From Pacific Media Watch
By Andi Rahman Alamsyah in Jakarta
People were commenting on social media within moments of the terrorist bombings and shooting in Jakarta...