OpenAI also agrees to transparency rules for ChatGPT.

Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?

Drawing on Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT), we conducted 60 semi-structured interviews to examine (1) how news audiences in Australia and Germany form expectations about journalists’ use of gene...

From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account    Around the w...

Published in Communication Research and Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

If you’re a sucker for a black and white filter, think again, as new research shows colour images are preferred by most viewers.

AI watermarks are supposed to help us tell if content is real or generated. But they dramatically vary in effectiveness.

Memes are the currency of the election campaign online. Here’s a report card on the Labor, Liberal and Greens efforts, from the good to the tone-deaf.

Editing any photo, anywhere, is cheaper and easier than ever. What does that mean for having ‘visual proof’ of something?

As the tide of AI ‘slop’ rises, it’s more important than ever to hone your reality-checking skills.

Australians are swamped by misinformation every day but they’re smart enough to know they need help to better navigate an untrustworthy online world. False online claims about business and the economy...

A new report on journalism in seven countries shows AI might have a place in the newsroom – but everyone should proceed with caution.

Generative AI applications have been hailed as “transformative,” “disruptive,” and posing a “threat to human journalists and media professionals.” Much of this discourse reflects longstanding conce...