Media Watch: Monday 30/3/2026 Algorithm addiction: Court finds Google and Meta apps were like drugs of addiction. Predators online: US court finds Facebook distributed child sexual material. Plus Doctor who? Australian Story puffs...

Superb #MediaWatch 30Mar. Host @lintonbesser.bsky.social examined the dangers of social media: courts find Google & Meta apps purposefully addictive, and FB involved in distributing child sexual material. Plus an #AustralianStory ep promoting a discredited surgeon.
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Have you noticed how the "Good News" has started to sound a lot like a sales pitch? The Salem Media model is a perfect example: stoke political fear on the radio, then sell "financial solutions" in the next segment. #ChristianValues #MediaWatch
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Content warning.

Some of the hardest viewing I've ever seen on #mediawatch tonight.

But important to watch.

Especially the segment on how evil Meta is - allowing folk to trade to purchase child pornography via some of its apps.

And a rogue surgeon - Dr Munjad Al Murderis

Heads up #mediawatch watchers who will catch up with the tonight's episode...

You might want to skip the last story if you are squeamish.

YIKES.

Lynton Besser absolutely giving it to his employer the ABC for journalistic malpractice. Go on 👍🏼 #mediawatch

love your work @lintonbesser.bsky.social!
@abcnewsbot.bsky.social
#mediawatch

Yes, great takedown of IG and Facebook by @lintonbesser.bsky.social

#MediaWatch

This man went viral after surviving Bondi. Then the internet took a dark turn Arsen Ostrovsky was on the ground, bleeding, at the Bondi attack when he decided to take a selfie. Within 2 hours it was circulating on the internet. In less than a day, it had become fodder for a glo...

#auspol

I swear there must be a Z10 media arm with a direct line to OUR ABC. How else do you explain this propaganda?

#mediawatch

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#MediaWatch & #Landline are must see in my world
Thanks for the heads up Have recorded #4Corners & MW, maybe Oz Story.
Looking forward to the ZioMSM fraudsters being held to account for th decades long campaign of LIES & acts of TREASON.
Demonically deranged savages malfunctioning as Satan's proxies

Media Watch: Monday 23/3/2026 Allegations of violence made against media mogul Antony Catalano amid the steady decline of his regional news empire. Google AI summaries mean opportunity for big news players, and Armageddon for the ...

Outstanding ABC #MediaWatch tonight. @lintonbesser.bsky.social reports on Antony Catalano, his alleged #VAW crimes plus the damage he's done to regional newspapers. Important commentary on AI use by Google and in news journalism. Superb. iview.abc.net.au/show/media-w...

ABC AUSTRALIA; STATE SANCTIONED PROPAGANDA

Zionist lobby controls - #TheirABC whether ABC YouTube public comments are "enabled"

#ABCNewsIndepth #ABCNews24 #Insiders #730Report #AfternoonBriefing #FourCorners #PlanetAmerica #MediaWatch #ChinaTonight #ForeignCorrespondent

#Auspol – Fascist-Zionism

Al-Monitor claims Iranian missile fragments killed 3 Palestinians & 1 foreign worker. Mainstream media blames Iran, ignoring 680K+ Palestinian deaths from US-backed Israeli assaults since Oct 2023. What's left out? @The_Piaz reports. #WestBank #MediaWatch

Read more: https://piaz.news/article/allege

Very poor Monash University
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Axios reports Iranian officials killed, citing only Israeli ministers. Conveniently forgets the US pours $3.8B/year into Israel's military. This isn't news, it's a press release. #HandsOffIran #MediaWatch @The_Piaz

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War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out of control | Asia Pacific Report

War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out of control #asiapacificreport #PacificMediaWatch #newsmedia #mediawatch #AJ #TheListeningPost #IranWar‌ #warpropaganda
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📰 The FCC warning is more than words. What happens if broadcast networks don’t “correct course”? The story unfolds here 👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/3hm7a6xk #Trump #FCC #MediaWatch #BrendanCarr #Politics 🚨📺

📰 The FCC warning is more than words. What happens if broadcast networks don’t “correct course”? The story unfolds here 👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/3hm7a6xk #Trump #FCC #MediaWatch #BrendanCarr #Politics 🚨📺

📰 The FCC warning is more than words. What happens if broadcast networks don’t “correct course”? The story unfolds here 👉🏿 tinyurl.com/3hm7a6xk #Trump #FCC #MediaWatch #BrendanCarr #Politics 🚨📺

It’s official: The media narrative around Benjamin Netanyahu is heating up. 📰🌐
#Netanyahu #Israel #BreakingNews #GlobalPolitics #MediaWatch

Dear Annabel Denham: A Petrol Pump Is Not A Doctorate In Ordinary People On the mystical powers of unleaded and other Fleet Street hallucinations.

And Annabel, with all the solemn awe of a court stenographer at the Church of Nigel, looked at this travelling roadshow and wrote as though she had glimpsed a statesman communing with the nation.

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#ReformUK #PoliticalSatire #UKPolitics #MediaWatch #Farage

Today’s Papers #179: Trump’s Little War Excursion, Reeves at the Forecourt, Anti-Muslim Definition Panic, and Britain’s Ancient Sport of Marking Men Out of Ten by Plume When oil jumps, wars widen and inflation stomps back, the British front pages revert to type. Never mind the dead or the bill, breakfast becomes a contest over which man looked strongest in the smoke.

Morning to the lovely people of Britain. The kettle is on. Brent crude has lurched about like a hen night outside Slug & Lettuce.
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#UKPolitics #PoliticalSatire #MediaWatch #FrontPages #NewsSatire #CostOfLiving #EnergyCrisis #IranWar #PressWatch #Satire

How AI-generated imagery is shaping the narrative of the Iranian conflict | #MediaWatch #Australia #straya

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Hey ABC... you said the new bad show would be over 5 min ago.

I wanted to watch #MediaWatch

I love Media Watch on ABC Australia, and #LintonBesser, just caught up with the last episode of journalists in Ukraine, all very brave thank you. But I have to say to Linton and #MediaWatch there was not one mention of the journalists in Gaza who have died, so very disappointed about this oversight

David Ellison claims CNN will stay "independent" under Paramount-Skydance. 🚩 Don’t buy it. His "independence" is a PR mask for a radical ideological pivot. Let’s look at the receipts. 🧵 #CNN #MediaWatch #Journalism

Survivor's 'disbelief' her childhood abuser misled Australian Story A "plucky pensioner" from a cancelled Australian Story episode is a convicted child sex offender who has failed to pay his victim more than $385,000 in civil damages.

So good to see the local ABC in #Bendigo thoroughly investigating and holding its own organisation to account.
(Before #MediaWatch got into it)
This is about the Australian Story episode that was sensationally pulled hours before it was set to air a couple of weeks ago
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Today’s Papers #175: The Torpedo Throwback, The China Arrests, And Britain’s War-Joiners Doing The “Just One More” Line Wake up to a submarine doing nostalgia, get a democracy-interference panic by lunch, then buy six bottles of wine and call it “strategic resilience”.

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#TodaysPapers #UKPolitics #Westminster #MiddleEastConflict #USIranWar #GlobalPolitics #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #WarNews #UKNews #WorldNews #PoliticalSatire #MediaWatch #BritishPolitics #DefencePolicy #InternationalRelations #SatiricalPlanetNews

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Just catch up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";

www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch

As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this […]

Screenshot of a BBC news headline on a mobile webpage. The headline reads: “At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says.” The BBC logo appears at the top, along with menu, search, and profile icons. A timestamp below the headline says “20 hours ago.” Red annotations have been added over the image: the word “dead” is crossed out and labeled “killed” with a downward arrow, and “Iran” is crossed out and replaced with “US/Israeli” with another arrow, indicating suggested wording changes.

How the BBC chose to report on the US and Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran:

1. It used “dead” instead of “killed,” softening the violence and removing agency.
2. It relied on passive construction, carefully avoiding naming […]

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#Australia #MediaWatch
#ABCNewsIn-depth

TV doctor's telehealth side hustle | Media Watch
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Media Watch: Monday 2/3/2026 Epic Fury Unleashed: Missiles fly across the Middle East, as the world's media makes tough decisions about what conflict to cover. Ukraine fades from view as the hazards intensify for reporters on the...

#MediaWatch @lintonbesser.bsky.social report on media coverage of war zones, incl. #Iran & #Ukraine (good) BUT literally no mention of Israel's #GazaGenocide or Israel's murder of journalists in #Gaza! (Israel is responsible for two-thirds of press killings in 2025!) iview.abc.net.au/show/media-w...

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Just catching up with the MediaWatch I missed while at Splore. In last Sunday's episode, they covered disgraceful anti-immigrant soapboxing in the media;

www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch

Let's be clear; the comments by Winston First MPs […]