Updated: Facebook ‘refriends’ Australia after changes to media laws
Updated 9pm (AEDT)Canberra, AustraliaReuters Facebook will restore Australian news pages after Canberra offered amendments to a proposed law designed to force tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Tuesday. Australia and the social media group have been locked in a standoff for more than a week […]
Google travel data show lockdown fatigue in US, Australia; other countries stay home
Oakland, CaliforniaReuters More people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as those countries’ novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and jobs as infection rates flattened, data from Google show. The latest weekly update of aggregated travel patterns Google collected from its users’ phones […]