Twitter has disabled a feature allowing users to report potentially misleading information on the social media platform, just weeks out from the vote for constitutional recognition of First Nations...
Online platforms Facebook, TikTok and Twitter are allowing misinformation about the Voice to Parliament to run as paid advertisements, raising fresh questions about content moderation ahead of new regulator...
Misinformation reports produced by digital platform providers like Meta, Twitter and TikTok under the voluntary industry code are “not working to provide transparency”, the communications watchdog has argued in...
Big Tech concerns with proposed misinformation and disinformation laws that will grant new powers to the Australian Communications and Media Authority are “very valid”, according to the regulator’s chair...
Misinformation laws proposed by the Albanese government to hold social media platforms to account for harmful content on their platforms could inadvertently be “abused” to the detriment of free...
Communications minister Michelle Rowland has released draft legislation that would give the Australian Media and Communications Authority new powers to hold social media platforms and others accountable for harmful...
United Nations chief António Guterres recently called out mis- and disinformation as a “grave global harm”, while launching a key report on the issue. The report is part of...
Twitter was the only tech giant covered by Australia’s voluntary disinformation and misinformation code not to publish data on the volume of local content removed from its social media...
If you think ‘transparency’ is a buzzword, you’d be easily forgiven. We regularly hear calls and commitments to corporate transparency and, while we know it’s a good thing, do...
Australia’s media regulator will be able to request information from digital platforms on their efforts to reduce the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation under legislative reforms planned for...