Regulating how kids access the internet – including social media – must balance protection from harm with children’s rights to expression and information.
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A social media ban only delays young people’s exposure to these platforms. It does not help them learn how to deal with them.
Regulators in China are scouring social media platforms and censoring those deemed to be engaged in morally corrupt behavior.
Peter Malinauskas joined the podcast to talk about AUKUS, bans on children under 14 accessing social media, restricting most political donations and Peter Duttons Nuclear announcement.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.
A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
The move could jeopardise users’ safety and might even get the platform banned from the Google and Apple app stores.
Montana has announced plans to ban the app from January 2024, making it a potential testing ground for a ‘TikTok-free’ America.
The platform has already faced bans in a number of other countries – most of them citing privacy and surveillance concerns.
What data privacy risk does TikTok pose, and what could the Chinese government do with data it collects? And is it even possible to ban an app?
New research shows that antisemitic posts surged as the ‘free speech absolutist’ took over the social media giant. And it has settled at a higher level since.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp are reframing democracy and the way citizens engage and organise in the digital space.
Elon Musk has an idea of what ails Twitter and what needs to be done to fix it. The problem is his assumptions are wrong.
Not knowing how many posts people see on social media overall or where specific types of content get concentrated is keeping researchers in the dark about misinformation.
We all have biases that impact what information we choose to accept and reject. But there are some ways we can train ourselves to become more discerning.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter shutdown will be hard to enforce and could have dire consequences for Nigeria’s fragile democratic institutions and economy.
Trump will not be returning to Facebook or Instagram before November 2021.
If it hosts the same violent rhetoric that saw Parler forced offline, Trump’s platform may be a short-lived adventure.
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Daystar University
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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PhD Student, Political Science, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Milovan Savic is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
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Reader in Data Security, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Educational Psychology & Learning, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
