When Mehreen Faruqi first became the first Australian Muslim senator, she didn’t expect to receive the amount of abuse she did.
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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.
The NSW Court of Appeal’s Dylan Voller decision means the media may be liable for the hurtful things users write on social pages. This will have many media companies in a panic.
We found about 300 suspicious Twitter accounts, which we suspect included a high proportion of bots and trolls pushing the #ArsonEmergency narrative.
Defamation law reform is on the horizon. Social media companies may be held more liable for what they publish. But this could come at the expense of everyday users.
An examination of the Twitter activity after the Québec mosque murders reveal that the majority showed sympathy towards the victims, but Russian trolls worked to spread antagonism and fake news.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, News, Social Media, and Public Communication, Simon Fraser University
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Visiting Postdoc, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama
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Teaching Associate/PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Doctoral Scholar/Sessional Academic, QUT, Queensland University of Technology
