The federal government should force Facebook owner Meta to operate from inside Australia so that it can no longer use US law to dodge responsibility for scam ads and other misconduct on its platform, experts say. Meta currently claims that it can only be sued over content on Facebook inContinue Reading
Australia’s “highly competitive” telecommunications sector is under “dynamic strain”, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has warned, after the country’s largest telco Telstra revealed it would slash 2800 direct jobs before year’s end. Announced by Telstra boss Vicki Brady on Tuesday, the telecommunications giant swung the axe in what is largest redundancyContinue Reading
A date has been set for the showdown between Elon Musk’s social media giant X and the online regulator after a temporary order barring content from the Sydney church stabbing was thrown out. The Federal Court on Monday chose not to extend a temporary order to hide video of theContinue Reading
Student organisers of an anti-Israel protest camp at the Australian National University have declared that Hamas “deserve our unconditional support” while saying they “do not condemn” the October 7 terror attacks. Around 40 students camped out on the ANU’s Kambri Lawn on Monday night as part of a protest ledContinue Reading
For many motorists, one of the most striking features of driving an electric car for the first time is the uncanny silence. But while a reduction in road noise may be a positive, advocates for the blind and low-vision community have long warned of the danger these heavy, silent carsContinue Reading
Australia must be “realistic” about content people in other countries can view on social media, Peter Dutton says, as a bitter fight to remove the violent footage of the Sydney church stabbing wages on. The Opposition Leader fuelled suggestions of an internal rift within his party on Thursday after heContinue Reading
Elon Musk has stepped up his war of words with the Australian government over demands the X social media platform remove videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop, as the controversy around violent content spirals into a wider free speech debate. The eccentric billionaire has been publicly feuding PrimeContinue Reading
Elon Musk has mocked Anthony Albanese in a series of posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The eSafety commissioner won a two-day interim legal injunction to force X to hide any material depicting the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel last Monday while heContinue Reading
Footage from a record-breaking $8.6 million auction in Strathfield in Sydney’s inner-west has sparked heated reaction online, amid suggestions that Australia’s property market is being flooded with foreign cash. But the agent who sold the property has now revealed that the buyer was a “local”. The “uber-luxury” five-bedroom, six-bathroom homeContinue Reading
Elon Musk and his social media company X have vowed to fight orders by Australia’s online watchdog to remove content related to alleged Sydney church stabbing attack. On Tuesday, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said social media giants X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook parent company Meta would be issued aContinue Reading