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SA Health CEO suggests social media tracking for illness prevention

The head of SA Health has suggested tracking what individuals put on social media to identify, predict and prevent their health problems.

Labor leader's $20k Facebook campaign

Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has spent nearly $20,000 on Facebook advertising since the March 2018 election – considerably more than his bill for traditional radio and print messaging – and paid $28,000 to a consulting firm headed by a Labor communications and polling guru.

Twitter say posts seeking to undermine the Hong Kong protests came from China, where the platform is banned. Photo: AP/Vincent Thian

Social media giants pull plug on China anti-HK protest campaign

Twitter and Facebook say they have dismantled a state-backed information operation originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.

Facebook fined $7 billion after privacy probe, new antitrust inquiry opens

Facebook will pay a record $US5 billion ($A7.2 billion) fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and will boost safeguards on user data, the US Federal Trade Commission and the social media company say.

Alien seekers warned against invading Area 51

The US Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people “storm Area 51”, the top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert.

Instagram to hide "likes" in Australian trial

Instagram users in Australia will no longer be able to see how many ‘likes’ a post has a received under trial changes to “remove pressure” on the digital platform’s users.

Congress questions social media "deepfakes" before 2020 elections

US Congress is pressing social media companies on how they plan to handle the threat of deepfake images and videos on their platforms before the 2020 elections.

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