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Big tech news tax finalised to fund Australian journalism

Microsoft has been swept into Labor’s highly anticipated plan to fund news journalism through a levy on big tech, with the charge rate also increased in the final revisions before...

Most Aussie teens still on social media after ban, study finds

31 July 2026 | by Christine Chen and Byron Kaye

More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government’s landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s took effect because the tech...

Meta exec unable to explain 79pc drop in hateful content blocks

6 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Policy changes introduced last year by tech giant Meta to avoid censorship preceded a 79 per cent reduction in the amount of harmful content being hidden or removed from...

Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

24 June 2026 | by David Allen

Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...

Meta lobbies for legal immunity from child-harm lawsuits

21 June 2026 | by Jody Godoy

Meta Platforms has lobbied the US Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young...

Zuckerberg says Meta made ‘mistakes’ in AI workforce shift

13 June 2026 | by Katie Paul

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has made mistakes in its AI transformation of its workforce, according to an internal memo. Mr...

Meta accuses Australia of breaching FTA, invokes US ‘trade action’

4 June 2026 | by Byron Kaye

Meta accused Australia of violating a free trade agreement with the US by proposing a new tax on certain tech giants which do not strike licensing deals with local...

Federal politician hooked by WhatsApp phishing attack

25 May 2026 | by David Allen

A federal politician and three of their staffers fell victim to a WhatsApp phishing attack by “a foreign state actor” in March this year, a Senate Estimates hearing has...

Meta to expand tech safeguards for teens in Europe, US

6 May 2026 | by Foo Yun Chee

Meta will expand safeguards for teen accounts to 27 European Union countries and to Facebook in the United States, the tech giant said on Tuesday, as it comes under...

Big Tech to face 2% levy unless they sign local news deals

28 April 2026 | by Christine Chen and Byron Kaye

The Australian government has said that Meta, Alphabet’s Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets for news on their...

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Big tech news tax finalised to fund Australian journalism

Meta exec unable to explain 79pc drop in hateful content blocks

Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

Zuckerberg says Meta made ‘mistakes’ in AI workforce shift

Meta accuses Australia of breaching FTA, invokes US ‘trade action’

Federal politician hooked by WhatsApp phishing attack

Big Tech to face 2% levy unless they sign local news deals

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