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As legislators rail against social media companies, the companies continue to put millions of young people at risk. Here’s how − and what can be done about it.
Many TikTok creators, including creators of pornography, use the platform to promote themselves and their explicit content on other platforms.
The plaintiffs claims features such as ‘infinite scroll’ leave users less likely to be able to exercise self-control.
The platform formerly known as Twitter faces a A$610,500 penalty from the eSafety Commissioner.
Foreign interference campaigns have targeted every major social media platform in Australia. But to date, nobody has been prosecuted for this.
Montana has announced plans to ban the app from January 2024, making it a potential testing ground for a ‘TikTok-free’ America.
Social media child influencers are increasingly marketing products normally targeted at adults, such as beauty and skincare items.
The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
A key piece of federal law, Section 230, has been credited with fostering the internet and allowing misinformation and hate speech to flourish. Here’s how it could be reformed.
While Musk’s first steps as Twitter owner don’t inspire confidence, the platform continues to retain its original content moderation policies (for now).
Platforms have started a silent censorship war through this opaque (and often harmful) approach to content moderation.
Imposing outright social media bans can do more harm than good.
Anti-Asian memes spread on TikTok during the pandemic, and the potential for harm is real. It’s about time platforms scrutinised such ‘humour’ more closely.
South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
Recently, concerns have been raised over the harm caused by misinformation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and federal elections.
When Mehreen Faruqi first became the first Australian Muslim senator, she didn’t expect to receive the amount of abuse she did.
A Meta spokesperson told The Conversation non-news pages had been taken down by mistake. Whistleblower allegations contradict this.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is seen as a threat to the digital public square. International regulation is required to protect internet users’ access to democratic public spaces.
The digital public sphere is constantly evolving, so we need a regulatory framework that helps to structure public discussion, and in turn guide our own public contributions as citizens.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Bond University
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Computer and Security Science,Edith Cowan University, Edith Cowan University
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Educational Psychology & Learning, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Finance, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Swinburne University of Technology
