The media mogul and the Nobel laureate both want
Social Media reined in, albeit for very different reasons. Plus, Ita Buttrose strikes back at Coalition ‘interference’
A Nobel peace prize laureate and media mogul Rupert Murdoch might not have a lot in common, but this week Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and the News Corporation executive chairman spoke with one voice against what they both say is a threat to journalism: social media platforms.
Ressa told the
Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s
Sydney dialogue that
Facebook and
Google are biased against facts and are creating “a virus of lies” that threatens all democracies.