WebCam • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/webcam/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:23:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?quality=70&w=32 WebCam • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/webcam/ 32 32 232040107 Tales from the misinformation mines https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/24/webcam-misinformation-conspiracy-hack-hoax/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/24/webcam-misinformation-conspiracy-hack-hoax/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:44:11 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1111721 Alan Jones at CPAC Australia, where he repeated a proven lie that kitty litter was being put in school bathrooms (Image: Twitter)What I've learned from the conspiracy coalface. Plus Australia's internet registry hack hoax.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/24/webcam-misinformation-conspiracy-hack-hoax/feed/ 3 On Brittany Higgins and the weaponisation of leaked personal data https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/10/brittany-higgins-leaked-data-kilcoy-rodeo/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/10/brittany-higgins-leaked-data-kilcoy-rodeo/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:25:53 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1107531 Former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)Plus: why a small regional Queensland town trended on TikTok over the weekend.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/10/brittany-higgins-leaked-data-kilcoy-rodeo/feed/ 12 Is social media turning us into prudes? https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/27/webcam-social-media-welcome-to-sex-privacy-breach/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/27/webcam-social-media-welcome-to-sex-privacy-breach/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:54:12 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1104120 How big tech is helping to fuel a puritanical social movement. Plus the nightmare scenario for being caught in a privacy breach.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/27/webcam-social-media-welcome-to-sex-privacy-breach/feed/ 8 People are making TikToks exposing Facebook car sales fraud https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/13/webcam-tiktok-service-nsw-facebook-marketplace-odometer-car-fraud/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/13/webcam-tiktok-service-nsw-facebook-marketplace-odometer-car-fraud/#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:28:24 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1099995 A new Service NSW tool is helping people turn odometer fraud into content. Plus what can we learn from one of the most prevalent forms of online fraud?

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/07/13/webcam-tiktok-service-nsw-facebook-marketplace-odometer-car-fraud/feed/ 0 A much-loved music store has become an online, copyright-infringing zombie https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/13/webcam-sanity-digi-twitter-facebook-meta-transparency-report/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/13/webcam-sanity-digi-twitter-facebook-meta-transparency-report/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:57:37 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1091584 Plus, Elon Musk's Twitter is getting less transparent.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/13/webcam-sanity-digi-twitter-facebook-meta-transparency-report/feed/ 0 On ‘bankrolled’ bot armies, the Voice to Parliament and online debate manipulation anxiety https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/30/webcam-bots-online-debate-manipulation-voice-to-parliament/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/30/webcam-bots-online-debate-manipulation-voice-to-parliament/#comments Tue, 30 May 2023 06:20:11 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1088110 Plus, a new hustle that shows how the internet economy is turtles all the way down.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/30/webcam-bots-online-debate-manipulation-voice-to-parliament/feed/ 1 Renters are using TikTok to get revenge on landlords https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/16/webcam-covid-social-media-health-departments-tiktok-renting-landlord/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/16/webcam-covid-social-media-health-departments-tiktok-renting-landlord/#comments Tue, 16 May 2023 05:31:38 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1084031 (Image: TikTok)Plus: can we post our way out of the next pandemic?

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/16/webcam-covid-social-media-health-departments-tiktok-renting-landlord/feed/ 11 There’s something awful happening online but I can’t speak freely about it https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/30/webcam-child-abuse-pope-in-a-coat-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/30/webcam-child-abuse-pope-in-a-coat-artificial-intelligence/#respond Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:40:23 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1071894 (Image: Adobe)Plus: why I'm not worried about a pope in a coat.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/30/webcam-child-abuse-pope-in-a-coat-artificial-intelligence/feed/ 0 Has the internet gotten less fun since COVID-19? https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/14/internet-less-fun-covid-pandemic/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/14/internet-less-fun-covid-pandemic/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:15:09 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1067442 Also, going viral on LinkedIn, and falling in love with an AI chatbot.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/14/internet-less-fun-covid-pandemic/feed/ 2 Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is in the shovel business https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/28/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-shovel/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/28/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-shovel/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2023 04:56:38 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1062281 Meta's trial of charging Instagram and Facebook users for verification is a tax on the creator class.

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