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AuthorDiana Bossio

Associate Professor, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology. Diana Bossio is the convenor of the Media and Communications postgraduate programs in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Dr Bossio lectures in both Media and Communications and Journalism at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is available for post-graduate supervision (see research interests below). Dr Bossi obtained her PhD on government and media representations of post-September 11 insecurity from RMIT University. She also facilitates The Burn magazine and the undergrdauate and postgraduate work experience programs at Swinburne.
Mark Zuckerberg. Michael Reynolds / AAP.

Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly shot itself in the foot

by Diana Bossio Feb 21, 2021Feb 21, 2021

The social media giant claims news publishers derive more value from news sharing than Facebook does. But this is probably more about flexing some muscle. Facebook may be demonstrating to the Federal government that if it doesn’t like the rules, it can damage national interests.

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  • Confronting South Africa’s official anti-Zionism
  • Chinese private security firms are growing their presence in Africa: why it matters
  • Despite ‘clever accounting’, Transnet is still an operational mess – Gauteng fuel pipeline breach is now at crisis point
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  • Israel, like any other sovereign state, has a duty to defend itself

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