In July last year, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant directed tech companies to develop codes of practice to keep children safe from online porn and harmful content. Now,...
Meta’s surprise move to end fact checking shows Australia can’t rely on the US for effective tech regulation, according to experts who are now urging policymakers to step up...
Meta will pay up to $50 million to users in Australia as part of its settlement with the privacy regulator over the tech giant’s Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal,...
Just days out from the United States presidential election last month, X (formerly Twitter) suddenly crippled the ability of many major media and political organisations to reach audiences on...
A trial of age verification technology will not deliver its findings to the federal government until six months after proposed legislation banning social media for under-16s is introduced to...
Australia will move to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the federal government expected to introduce world-first legislation to Parliament before the end of...
For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when...
Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...
Australian Facebook users’ posts from as far back as 2007 are being used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models, the company conceded on Wednesday at a tense Senate inquiry...
Meta is still threatening to block news content on its platforms in Australia, telling lawmakers on Wednesday that all options are “on the table” if the government does try...