Media Landscapes Are Shifting

Dear MLE Student Seeing as you're still holed up at home this weekend (... next weekend, and the weekend after next, and probably the weekend after that...) you are perfectly placed to expend some time on stuff which will inform our journey together and enhance your knowledge of media-related matters so that you can develop your ability to identify ethical issues and blow me away with your insights. Minister Josephine Teo went legal. People said sorry. 👈  *Note - a possible case study for CA2/CA3 In the midst of the global pandemic, China made its move. Things are going to get really intense in Hong Kong.  This has been brewing for a while - some Insights from HK teenagers 🙋 before last year's mayhem. TikTok opened their API to Sprinkler in April and are now poised to conquer the 🌏. Completely random, but since food delivery is the most exciting thing happening in Singapore now... DT got trumped by Twitter, his go-to SM channel to reach his 80 million followers. He asserts its an infringement of free speech and is so mad😡 he's going to do something nasty. Not to get too far ahead to Week 10's topics but - Should SM platforms be responsible for policing user content? If so, what is the best method? In DT's case, Twitter has done it using an alert ! which directs readers to their own fact-citation site. And what is the cost (Not to the platforms, dey rich) but to the poor folks getting PTSD doing it. Is it ok if SM platforms refuse to remove fake political ads? Should the world trust their motives?  💲🎤👼 ... which is a nice segue (not to be confused with 🚲 ) into the next item. 4 years since the Cambridge Analytica debacle. 2 years after hours of uncomfortable exchanges before congress, and a written apology.  Last month, FB announced the Who's Who of the universe (including a former prime minister of a sovereign state) on their newly formed oversight board. Not everyone is impressed by the proposed self-regulation. This month, FB also dished out a cool $400 million to buy Giphy 😱 (That's right. That's in addition to FB's other assets - Whatsapp & Instagram. BTW, here's a podcast🎧 about why Instagram's founders left FB, but I digress) This guy doesn't dig the GIPHY purchase and neither do these folks. You can watch this on Netflix 🎦 to understand the full story behind the apology. See you next week Padawans.