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Tracking kids: Meta exposed, Australia acts

 Australia has made global headlines again for its leading role in addressing online safety for minors. TIME magazine's recent cover story commends Anthony Albanese’s proactive stance on digital safety and discusses the broader challenges of implementing the under-16s social media ban.

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Election season: clicks, cash and chaos

As Australians prepare for the upcoming federal election and early voting is now open, new investigations reveal how industry-backed groups are increasingly using covert campaigns to influence public perceptions.

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Thank you for being a friend

The golden bros at Meta can’t make up their minds. Are they about family and friends or are they into public content?

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Tuned in? You'll want to be
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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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