[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.

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[Link] Barnaby Joyce says purchase of shares for son in company he quizzed at public inquiry ‘was reasonable’

Read: 11/4/2021 www.theguardian.com

Barnaby Joyce has said the purchase of shares in a space company for his young son, just weeks after the MP had quizzed the firm over its ownership structure in his capacity as chair of a federal parliamentary inquiry, was a “reasonable thing”.

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