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Rear Window columnist, The Australian Financial Review — mark.distefano@afr.com, out of office, Telegram @MarkDiStef
Oct 21, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
NEW: Significant win for Crikey as a judge rejects Lachlan Murdoch's bid to have large parts of the website's defence thrown out pre-defamation trial.

It means Fox coverage of the 2020 election and Murdoch's views will be allowed to be included in the Australian trial. For this to be happening while the Murdochs are trying to convince shareholders to merge News Corporation and Fox Corp. will be.... quite something.
Mar 16, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Scoop with @SylviaVarnham: U.K. government set to reveal new offences which could send tech executives from companies like Facebook and TikTok to jail
theinformation.com/articles/tech-… @SylviaVarnham Under the offences to be released imminently, tech executives will face criminal prosecution for…

- Failing to take down content

- Destroying data

- Providing false information to the regulator

- Obstructing officials from searching company offices
Oct 22, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨 On Monday, more than a dozen news organisations including AP, CNN, USA Today and Fox (!) are planning to drop stories on Facebook’s head. They’ve been coordinating on the whistleblower’s documents through a private Slack group. Story with @SylviaVarnham theinformation.com/articles/new-f…
Dec 9, 2019 11 tweets 4 min read
Unless there’s more video somewhere about to emerge, every reporter who took the bad briefing should clearly retract and apologise. It’s farcical. This is really bad.
Nov 27, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
From the leaked UK-US trade documents, meeting in November 2017.

A discussion about how US vs Europe treat food.

— "The US view the introduction of warning labels as harmful rather than as a step to public health" Here’s how the US asks the UK whether it would be cool to bring back chemical washing of food, like chlorinating chicken.