Lin Taylor

Sydney

Staff Correspondent, Inclusive Economies at Thomson Reuters Foundation

Staff Correspondent, Inclusive Economies at Context

Aussie journo covering human rights & global inequalities @TRF @Reuters (mat leave) • Ex @SBSNews @CNNi @UNICEF • Proudly born into a family of “boat people”✌🏽

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AI will help make 'life-or-death' calls in rammed UK asylum system

5 days ago | lse.co.uk | Lin Taylor

UK pledges to clear asylum backlog amid record migration *AI could influence human oversight in critical decisions *Governments adopt digital tech to manage borders By Lin TaylorLONDON, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain is hoping to clear a record backlog of asylum claims with artificial intelligence (AI), outsourcing life-and-death decisions to dehumanising technology, rights groups say.
Making money out of disaster with fake news

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.
Making money out of a disaster: fake news in Myanmar quake

1 month ago | thestar.com.my | Lin Taylor

LONDON: 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.
Making money out of a disaster: Fake news and the Myanmar quake

1 month ago | japantimes.co.jp | 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.
Fact check: Making money out of Myanmar’s quake disaster

1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | Lin Taylor
As U.S. ditches diversity in clinical trials, all eyes on Europe

1 month ago | japantimes.co.jp | Lin Taylor

The United States once led the world in running clinical trials that aimed to look like the nation at large. Now it is dumping equality goals and slashing health research, so experts are looking to Europe and Britain to plug the diversity gap. Racial health inequality manifests in many ways — be it discriminatory treatment or higher death rates — but one glaring disparity kicks in at the get-go with the testing of all drugs, medical devices and treatments pre-launch.
As US ditches diversity in clinical trials, all eyes on Europe

1 month ago | context.news | Lin Taylor

What’s the context? Trump rollback on DEI stifles global efforts to close racial health disparities laid bare by COVIDUS once led world on clinical trials diversityEquality goals fall from favour under TrumpResearchers look to UK and Europe for leadership The United States once led the world in running clinical trials that aimed to look like the nation at large. Now it is dumping equality goals and slashing health research, so experts are looking to Europe and Britain to plug the diversity gap.
アングル：消される女性のヘルスケア情報、団体や事業者がテック企業の「検閲」に懸念

1 month ago | jp.reuters.com | Lin Taylor

アマゾンやグーグル、ティックトック、メタといった大手テクノロジー企業が、自社の運営するプラットフォーム上で女性の健康に関するコンテンツを制限しつつある。画像はフェイスブックとインスタグラムのアプリ。２０２３年２月、ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナのゼニカ市で撮影（２０２５年ロイター/Dado Ruvic） [ロンドン１８日トムソン・ロイター財団] - アマゾンやグーグル、ティックトック、メタといった大手テクノロジー企業が、自社の運営するプラットフォーム上で女性の健康に関するコンテンツを制限しつつある。これを指摘した慈善団体や事業者は、コンテンツの制限や削除は、多様性に関するポリシーや生殖に関する権利をますます後退させることを懸念している。女性の健康を使命とするスタートアップから生殖関連医療に関する団体まで、多くの関係者が、ソーシャルメディアでの投稿が検閲されたり、有料のネット広告が拒否されたり、アカウントが凍結されたりする事例を指摘している。...
Women's health advocates say they are being suppressed on social media | New Straits Times

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.
Advocates say online erasure of women's health is 'dangerous'

1 month ago | timeslive.co.za | Lin Taylor

Advocates say online erasure of women's health is 'dangerous' Content with words like abortion, breast and vagina or that deals with menstrual or sexual health is being flagged as sexually explicit and removed from sites 19 March 2025 - 04:30 By Lin Taylor Tech giants Amazon, Google, TikTok and Meta are suppressing women's health content on their platforms, charities and businesses say, worried the erasure is entrenching a rollback of diversity policies and reproductive rights...