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1 month ago | nst.com.my | Lin Taylor - |Lin Taylor

PROFITEERS have flooded social media with fake news and bogus videos since a powerful earthquake devastated Myanmar last month, exploiting the chaos with clickbait that can reap tens of thousands in ad revenues, digital activists say. Be it sensational images that go viral or fake rescue tales, the schemes prey on the heightened fears and appetite for news that follow any disaster or outbreak of war. "People just have to assume there's a lot of false information that circulates.

1 month ago | nst.com.my | Lin Taylor - |Lin Taylor

Tech giants Amazon, Google, TikTok and Meta are suppressing women's health content on their platforms, say charities and businesses, worried the erasure is entrenching a rollback of diversity policies and reproductive rights. From women's health startups to reproductive healthcare groups, many say their social media posts are being censored, online paid advertisements rejected and digital accounts suspended.

Oct 3, 2023 | nst.com.my | Lin Taylor - |Lin Taylor

UNLIKE most 27-year-olds, Chung Ching Kwong does not want any of her life shared on social media. Both she and her loved ones' safety and freedom are at stake, said Kwong, who left Hong Kong in 2020 to avoid arrest for her pro-democracy work after China imposed a sweeping national security law that year.

Aug 19, 2023 | nst.com.my | Lin Taylor - |Lin Taylor

AID cuts could put more women and girls at risk of domestic violence, unsafe abortions and dropping out of school as rich nations' spending to fight gender inequality stagnates for the first time in a decade, charities and policy experts say.