New data shows how groups with benign-sounding names like ‘Mums for Nuclear’ are running political ad campaigns online. But they don’t even have to be truthful.
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The cases against Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon could profoundly shape the future of global technology.
Nearly every major American social media platform is ruled by a single founder with near-total control, thanks to a relatively new corporate share structure.
Australian authors are among those caught up in Meta’s use of LibGen, an illegal book repository, to train its AI. What are the legal implications?
Meta has obtained a court order to stop former senior employee Sarah Wynn-Williams from discussing her memoir – despite its new commitment to ‘free expression’.
Trump Media and Rumble joining X in legal fight against the Brazilian Supreme Court marks a new era of deregulation pushes.
Like their predecessors in the 19th century, digital Luddites are fighting oppressive technology. Will they succeed?
More than 1,300 people died on Australia’s roads in the last year. New modelling identifies the people and regions most at risk of future tragedies unless there’s a more targeted approach to road safety.
Latin American nations are at the forefront of a movement to create restrictions on global technology firms to prevent misinformation or misuse.
Other big tech companies such as Meta and OpenAI have also recently allowed for more military uses of AI. So why is this happening now?
How will content creators be compensated for material used by artificial intelligence? Disputes involving tech giants such as Google and Meta illustrate the issues involved.
When common sense is promoted as a virtue, it’s not just to celebrate how regular people understand the world. It promotes a worldview that rejects empirical facts and paves the way for propaganda.
‘Stop and Consider’ aims to help voters sift the real from the fake but it will take more than this to combat a growing and insidious problem.
Multiple countries, including New Zealand and Australia, are trying to use tax and competition rules to stem the growing power of big tech.
Do companies need to embrace a more diesel-fueled, meat-eating mentality? Many already do – and the results aren’t pretty, according to business research.
The 19th-century industrialists were called ‘robber barons’ – but they did more to improve society than many of today’s super-rich.
Major social media platforms have decided to leave the job of fact checking to their platforms’ users. Research suggests they may not be up to the challenge.
A digital media scholar and longtime RedNote user gives a firsthand account of US and Chinese social media users interacting on the app.
Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.
Between allowing more “free speech” and removing official fact-checking, Meta’s platforms risk becoming more hostile to public health organisations.
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of AI and Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University