Social media giants will be scrutinised in a new parliamentary inquiry as the Federal Government vows to make them for accountable for online harm and misinformation.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Holding social media platforms to account is not a free speech argument, it’s all about truth, decency and democracy.
Daniel Smith
At some point, we will need a sense of hope that the problem will, in fact, shift from being hopeless.
Lanna Hill
Is it possible to bring order to the lawless social media state which X has become under the ownership of billionaire Elon Musk? Social media academic Dr Dana McKay discusses on this week’s Court in the Act.
Tim Clarke
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie hit back at Elon Musk after he labelled her an ‘enemy of the people of Australia’ amid his legal stoush with the Australian government over extremist content shared on X.
Remy Varga and Max Corstorphan
Australia’s top spy and police officer are opening up another front in the stoush with big tech companies, accusing them of failing to obey the laws on encrypted messaging and fanning flames of division.
Katina Curtis
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has blasted Senator Ralph Babet for sharing the banned video that has ignited a social media war between Elon Musk and the Federal Government
Anthony Albanese says social media must recognise it has a social responsibility too and billionaire owner Elon Musk is wrong to argue orders to remove violent videos impinge on freedom of expression.
It wasn’t too long ago that politicians were falling over themselves to catch the attention of Elon Musk.
Australians are fed up with the ‘narcissistic billionaires’ behind social media companies who think they are above the law, senior politicians have declared amid a stoush with Elon Musk’s X.
Elon Musk has blasted the online watchdog over claims an order to remove content related to the Sydney church stabbing was ‘unlawful and dangerous’.
Nathan Schmidt
Elon Musk's social media platform says it will fight an Australian regulator over an order to take down posts after a church bishop was stabbed in Sydney.
Cassandra Morgan and Samantha Lock
A blend of overbearing self-assurance and a dismissive attitude towards the views of others is not a minor leadership flaw. It is a critical fault line threatening to fracture the bedrock of leadership.
Gary Martin
It seems Instagram is the new Facebook, as even the Insta-celebrities bemoan the loss of the influence — and income — they once had.
US singer Lizzo has told fans in an Instagram post: ‘I'm starting to feel like the world doesn't want me in it.’
Staff Writers
A potential Facebook news ban opens the door to peddlers of conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Donna Bates
Some leaders, typically generation X or older, often view social media as unnecessary. That needs to change.
A popular Australian social media duo have been lashed online after they filmed and shared a video of a Formula 1 driver urinating.
China has hit out at the US for bringing in legislation to ban TikTok, accusing it of ‘unjustly’ behaving like a ‘bandit’ as Australia confirms it has no plans to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform.
Kimberley Caines
Details of the ‘racist remark’ Sam Kerr allegedly said to a UK police officer have sent Aussies into raptures — with some social media users and a politician sticking by the Matildas footballer.
A City of Rockingham councillor’s parenting and child have been the subject of a relentless online trolling campaign.
Rachel Fenner
A woman is suing three family lawyers over comments they made in the wake of barrister Alice McShera’s alleged murder at the hands of her ex-partner at Crown Towers last year.
Rebecca Le May
‘Take a pic or it didn’t happen.’ As a member of Gen Z, it’s almost second nature to prioritise an Instagram post before fully enjoying our own experiences.
Megan French
Career bikie Brett ‘Kaos’ Pechey has become one of the international underworld’s most marked men after publicly ridiculing the powerful Rock Machine gang.
Ben Harvey