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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dodged a question about COVID-19 misinformation on the platform, as the company faces fury from the Biden administration. In an interview clip shared on Wednesday, CBS This Morning host Gayle King repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg on how many people had viewed pandemic misinformation on Facebook.   'One of the things that the White House has asked for repeatedly and still hasn't gotten a number, is how many people have viewed and shared, do you have that number?' asked King. 'Well, if we see harmful misinformation on the platform then we take it down. It's against our policy. So the 18 million number that I shared is the number, of pieces of content that we've seen on the platform that we've taken down,' Zuckerberg responded. CBS This Morning host Gayle King repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg on how many people had viewed pandemic misinformation on Facebook, but he would not answer directly .@GayleKing exclusively asked Facebook C

Australia is sending soldiers to guard its state borders in a bid to stop Covid-19 outbreaks from Sydney spilling over, as the Delta variant shows no sign of coming under control. To make matters worse, Sydney's Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said on Wednesday, as Australia's largest city continued to break records for new daily infections despite a nearly two-month lockdown. 'We haven't seen the worst of it and the way that we stop this is by everybody staying at home,' New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney, the state capital.  Australia's outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant has spilled over to neighbouring New Zealand, where the country's first community case of Covid-19 in six months was linked to the New South Wales state. The single infection sent New Zealand into a snap nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, with the city streets left largely deserted on Wednesday.

A brave man has undertaken what could be the world's most difficult workout by doing the same number of push ups as the NSW Covid cases announced each day - and it's all for a good cause.  Regan Campbell started the challenge on July 27 to raise $1,000 for the Black Dog Institute while in Sydney's lockdown and has so far completed a grand total of 7,133 push ups.  Mr Campbell is so set on meeting his targets for the mental health charity because his mother committed suicide and he attempted to in September 2017.   'Because of this mental health awareness has been something I'm a huge advocate for, and in a time where we are all self-isolating, mental health awareness should be at the front of everyone's mind,' he told Daily Mail Australia. Regan Campbell (pictured with fiancé Bronte) is hoping to raise $1000 for the Black Dog Institution by challenging himself to do the same number of push ups as daily Covid cases Mr Campbell explained that he is proud his

The Washington Post was condemned over a story calling the Taliban’s use of social media ‘strikingly sophisticated,’ while claiming that the group's internet presence did less to incite violence than Donald Trump did.  In a story published Wednesday, reporters Craig Timberg and Christiano Lima praised the Taliban's online tactics - including a regularly-updated Twitter feed, as showing 'such a high degree of skill,' that they believed a PR firm had been drafted in to help them get their extremist message across, just like regular politicians in democracies.  The Washington Post has received immense backlash over a recent story arguing the Taliban had become 'strikingly sophisticated' when using social media to build political momentum than former President Donald Trump In a story published Wednesday, reporters Craig Timberg and Christiano Lima praised the Taliban's online tactics - including a regularly-updated Twitter feed, as showing 'such a high degr

A hotel quarantine escapee who sneaked out of his room for an eight-hour pub crawl and McDonald's run says he was grief-stricken over the death of his father. Paul McElhinney, 33, strolled out of the Grand Chancellor medi-hotel on Hindley Street in the Adelaide CBD via the fire escape on the evening of August 3. The NSW man had flown into South Australia on a repatriation flight from Singapore on the way home from his father's funeral in Scotland. McElhinney appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to breaching the Emergency Management Act. Paul McElhinney, 33, walked out of the Grand Chancellor medi-hotel on Hindley Street in the Adelaide CBD on the evening of August 3 Police alleged it took the 33-year-old seven seconds to leave his room and enter a fire exit before making his way down to the hotel basement and outside.  His escape was caught on CCTV but the cameras were not being monitored by staff at the time and there was no alarm on the fire

A meth-addicted mother had her four youngest kids taken away when authorities discovered the family home was riddled with faeces and didn't have enough beds. Glenys Kupfer, 34, a mother of six, pleaded guilty to four counts of failing to provide adequate food, clothing and accommodation to a child in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Ms Kupfer acknowledged she wasn't coping as a single parent, had a serious drug habit and was also traumatised by the death of her brother, reported NCA Newswire. Police prosecutor Scott Mesecke told the court officers and Department of Child Protection staff first attended Ms Kupfer's Blair Athol home, in Adelaide's north, on March 1 in 2019. Glenys Kupfer, 34, a mother of six, pleaded guilty to four counts of failing to provide adequate food, clothing and accommodation to a child in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday After losing custody of her four kids, Adelaide mother Glenys Kupfer overcame some life demons and i

Radio star Gus Worland has claimed more Australians are taking their own lives than dying of coronavirus in a scathing rant about the impact of lockdowns on mental health.  The Triple M host appeared on Today on Thursday morning to discuss ongoing lockdowns and Sydney's growing Covid crisis. Worland, who founded mental health foundation GOTCHA4LIFE, says the battle to control Covid-19 is resulting in more suicides than the virus is taking lives and demanded leaders get harder on enforcement. 'Do you have any idea... how many people are taking their own lives? How many people who are depressed and anxious?' he said. 'Their numbers are bigger than the numbers that are dying through COVID.  'At what stage are we going to turn that narrative around and really find out what the real numbers are, which is Australians dying in a lot of other ways because of the lockdowns.' New South Wales obliterated its record with 633 new announced on Wednesday Radio star Gus Worla