Media & Entertainment

• [New] The social media giant said it hopes to have both cables up and running by 2024, working with Google and local telecoms providers to create a new digital bridge between Singapore, Indonesia and the United States.
• [New] The world will have to take some time to make a psychological adjustment to accept China's presence in the polar regions.
• [New] The world is getting more complex, and the risks and repercussions of 'getting it wrong' publicly, have changed with ever-increasing use of the internet and social media.
• [New] Mistrust in vaccines, particularly with the fast-paced development of current candidates, has been amplified by misinformation on social media and threatens to hold back successful vaccine rollouts worldwide.
• [New] Applications of AI have expanded to real estate, entertainment and gaming in recent years, and are expected to develop further in the coming years.
• [New] Foreign interference threatens the integrity of NZ's political, media and academic sectors, and exposes some communities to undue and undesirable pressures.
• [New] Telkomsel is committed to consistently provide customer-centric digital lifestyle services and becoming the home of entertainment for the Indonesian people that will open up more access to world-class digital entertainment.
• [New] If Seoul chooses to hedge more definitively against the China threat, Taiwan could offer South Korea some lessons on economic decoupling from China and managing the onslaught of Chinese influence operations targeting society and the media.
• [New] Digital advertising for pureplay media channels such as Amazon, Facebook and Google are expected to account for 61% of advertising in 2021.
• [New] Although relations between China and Africa have been strong over the years, time will tell how the trio of racism, media, and local realities interplay to shape migration between them.
• [New] Reliance on social media platforms such as Twitter will continue to grow as long as social distancing measures are used by governments to contain the spread of the virus.
• [New] Explosive ordnance risk education in Iraq continued to be delivered throughout the year using innovative platforms, including billboard messaging, television ads and social media campaigns.
• [New] In Libya, where small arms and light weapons are increasingly prevalent, youth advocates trained by UNMAS launched a social media campaign, accompanied by a video, to raise awareness about the risks and safety measures related to small arms and light weapons.
• Reaching markets through social media could disproportionately advantage smaller firms over larger ones, as suggested by the high proportion of small entrepreneurs who use Facebook.
• Social media analysis has been historically been undertaken by humans but Coca-Cola is looking and investing into developing automated systems that will create adverts and social media content informed by the social data which is generated.
• Social media is enabling anti-vaxxers to recruit millions of Americans and indoctrinate them with fear and doubt.
• Pacific media face increasing threats to media freedom and specific pressures from an emboldened interest by China in providing media content, development support and advertising revenue to local media.
• NBCUniversal will make all of Peacock's inventory available for purchase programmatically, but the Comcast-owned media conglomerate will not be artificially opening up more inventory by inserting more ads on the streaming service.
• The UK's Competition and Markets Authority will focus on the use of customer data against Facebook's competition in social media and advertising.
• Experts disagree about the validity of the DSM's decision not to include trauma that could be caused by observing things via media, like the 9/11 attacks on television.

Last updated: 05 April 2021