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Executive Order on Social Media Companies Will Be Signed on Thursday - White House
President Trump earlier threatened to put regulations or even shut down social media sites, including Twitter, after the latter labeled the president's tweets with fact-checks.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" shortly, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Wednesday.
McEnany first said it was not clear whether the president would sign it right on the plane while flying from the Kennedy Space Centre, or when he returns to the White House, but White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah later confirmed the order is to be signed on Thursday.
President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to say that social platforms are trying to censor Americans ahead of the November election, adding that they did the same in 2016.
On Tuesday, Trump accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 election for applying fact-check labels to two of the president's tweets claiming that mail-in ballots would lead to "cheating" in November's election. He then signaled that "big action" will follow.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202005271079436980-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-will-be-signed-on-thursday—white-house/
News Corp to cut jobs in restructure towards digital-only community and regional newspapers
News Corp has announced a massive shakeup of its publishing businesses, moving almost all its community and regional newspaper titles to a digital-only format.
More than 100 mastheads will become totally digital publications, and 13 papers will merge with other titles in the News Corp brand.
Today's announcement is the latest in a string of newsroom closures across the country and follows Buzzfeed shutting down its Australian operations and Network 10's decision to close its website 10Daily.
The media giant said there would "regretfully" be job losses associated with the announcement, but the exact number remains unclear.
"We're not talking to numbers, we're talking about people and we're having those conversations today and tomorrow, so I'm not going to prejudice those conversations, we're going to talk to them individually," News Corp Australia's executive chairman Michael Miller said.
He said the decision was a long-time coming but that staff had provided "invaluable" years of service.
"I said in April that we were passing a tipping point of the impact of migration of digital advertising from print," Mr Miller said.
"We were also passing a tipping point in terms of the number of Australians that are willing to pay for content online."
Mr Miller said as someone who grew up in regional Australia he understood how important local papers were, but the regional news habits were also moving to the digital space.
"That gives us confidence we won't let them down," he said.
News Corp said more than 375 journalists would continue to work solely for the company's regional and community titles, with the changes effective from June 29.
"These initiatives are significant," Mr Miller said.
Union unsure of number of job losses
The COVID-19 pandemic had already forced News Corp to suspend physical printing of some of its newspapers, with the crisis taking a sledgehammer to advertising revenue.
Some 16 community and regional papers are already online, with News Corp now planning to publish a total of 92 papers in the same way.
The Mackay Daily Mercury, the company's Messenger newspapers in Adelaide, and Melbourne Leader titles are among those to move to digital-only services.
The Hobart Mercury and NT News are among the regional papers that will still be printed.
A small number of regional titles will cease publication both in print and online, with coverage of these communities feeding into the digital masthead covering the wider area.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-to-cut-jobs-in-restructure-towards-digital-newspapers/12294970
Voltaren manufacturers fined $4.5m for misleading consumers over arthritis gel claims
The makers of Voltaren pain gels have been fined $4.5 million for falsely passing a product off as being more effective in relieving arthritis symptoms.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis to court in late 2017, accusing them of misleading consumers in advertising over five years.
The companies marketed Osteo Gel as being more effective than Emulgel in treating pain and inflammation caused by osteoarthritis.
Despite Emulgel being about 33 per cent cheaper in some stores, the two products were essentially the same.
GSK and Novartis admitted they had breached Australian consumer law with their marketing of Osteo Gel between 2012 and 2017.
The parties also agreed on the question of penalties and Federal Court Justice Robert Bromwich today ordered GSK pay a fine of $1.5 million and Novartis pay $3 million.
"Over more than half a decade, this group of companies sought to maximise their sales and thereby profits by artificially boosting the breadth of its product range in three different ways in packaging and online," Justice Bromwich wrote in his judgment.
This tricked consumers into thinking there were two different products.
"The contravening conduct could have been avoided by making it clear that the active ingredient was the same in the two products marketed for different uses and indeed generally different users," Justice Bromwich said.
The misleading claims were made on packaging, on the Voltaren website by both GSK and Novartis and on a separate health website.
In 2017, GSK amended the Osteo Gel packaging to state the product used the "same effective formula" as the Emulgel.
In an affidavit, GSK's head of legal Navaneetha Dilipumakanth apologised for the company's conduct and admitted it had "fallen short of the standards expected of it under the Australian Consumer Law".
"That is a candid and appropriate admission and amounts to the right kind of sorry — sorry for engaging in the conduct, not just sorry for being caught out," Justice Bromwich said.
The ACCC previously mounted a similar case against the makers of Nurofen involving pain products, which resulted in a $6 million penalty.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/voltaren-makers-fined-for-misleading-consumers/12295282