Covid-19 provides the most recent example of how important this role is. The role of First Nations media in addressing misinformation has been paramount and continues to be vital in providing accurate information. Media is a dialogue. Discussion can begin with on air and published reports and roll into community discussion and online follow-up and debate. Ideally, this last stage, providing an important forum for moderated discussion of a topic, would take place in the comments section of a website.
But years of under-funding to the industry has resulted in a lack of development in this space. Sure, we have websites, but most of them lack the bells and whistles required to attract significant traffic. Uploading and updating requires time from small teams where any given individual is already performing a role that four or five people would be doing in a comparative commercial environment. We share content to indigiTUBE, our national online content platform and we post on social medi
Sure, news sites can t publish to Facebook anymore. But what does that mean for you?
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Overnight, Facebook made the decision to block Australians from seeing and posting news on the platform in response to the proposed media bargaining code.
Australians scrolling their news feed this morning will have been met with a significant lack of news on the site. A quick look at the Facebook pages of popular Australian publishers, including Junkee, have now come up blank.
Indigenous news media organisations are scrambling after Facebook restricts Australians from sharing or viewing any national or international news.
The social media giant is blocking Australians from accessing news content in their Facebook feeds due to a standoff with the federal government over proposed laws forcing big tech companies to pay for news content.
Australians are now unable to share or see news from Australian organisations - including NITV News, public broadcasters, regional and remote Indigenous news outlets, and some essential community organisations.
We are extremely concerned that NATSILS has been blocked by #FacebookAustralia, so have some of our members. This is a human rights issue, silencing the voices of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, our representative peak bodies. This is how we connect with community. pic.twitter.com/EsUeoKZ2mG