Meta executives at a parliamentary hearing confirmed reports it was weighing up taking news links off its platforms if the federal government forced it to pay for Australian journalism.
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has denied that teenagers’ use of social media has contributed to steep rises in mental health and body image disorders.confirmed reports in this masthead that the company
This masthead revealed in May that Mark Zuckerberg’s firm had told Australia it would stop media companies and individual users from posting news links if the government enforced a world-first Morrison government scheme compelling tech giants to pay for articles.Meta’s vice president and global head of safety, Antigone Davis, provoked the scorn of senators when she claimed there was no clear evidence tying soaring rates of mental ill health since about 2010 to the uptake of social media use.
. Dr Vivek Murthy this month wrote that “the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency – and social media has emerged as an important contributor”.
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