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The judge and the journalist

President Trump continues to attack news media – with respected news organisations booted from the Pentagon and the White House media Corp whilst media sympathetic to the new President have been invited in, to silence the din of criticism.

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Uncensored, unchecked, unstoppable

One million in one hour. That is the claimed number of new users to have signed up to ChatGPT on the back of OpenAI’s release of new image generation capabilities.

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The evidence is in

The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) first Media Diversity Measurement Framework Report is out.

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Please consider

With the election campaign in full swing, the Australian Electoral Commission is taking a pro-active approach to tackling the inevitable challenges posed by the digital media environment

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Gazette’s grey teal funders

The Australian Electoral Commission has dismissed Victorian Senator Jane Hume’s complaint that a local news startup is a “highly sophisticated digital disinformation campaign” designed to influence the next federal election. 

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The viral hate machine

Earlier this month, Samantha Strable, also known as Sam Jones, fled Australia after a viral wombat snatching video sparked public outrage. Unfortunately, other women with the same name received hate messages and death threats on social media.

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A week is a long time in politics

Well, it’s week 2 (or is it 3?) of the election campaign.

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Liberating the tech bros

Every budget week for over a decade, I’ve recalled the audacity in Sarah Ferguson’s opening question to then Treasurer, Joe Hockey: ‘It’s a Budget with a new tax, with levies, with co-payments: Is it liberating for a politician to decide that election promises don’t matter?”

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Muted trumpets

A series of ads from Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party provoked widespread public backlash when they were run in several newspapers a fortnight ago.

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