US social media platform X incentivised the spread of inflammatory misinformation in the wake of the Bondi Beach shootings, a digital media expert has said.

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As in previous elections the QUT Digital Media Research Centre team is tracking how election campaigning is unfolding across the social media landscape, with a particular focus on candidate and party ...

Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media lan...

Australian voters are being targeted by divisive ‘them vs us’ strategies that overshadow policy debate. Here are the signs and ways to move past the soundbites. Politicians and media organisations are...

The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media landscape — described by one industry insider as a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in digital options — poses fundamental challenges to those who would monitor the digital world. […]

The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media lan...

Anthropic set its latest AI model loose on Pokémon Red. It turned into a fascinating experiment.

Political inaction and big-tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election. The rise of ‘dark advertising’ — personal...

In October 2022, Elon Musk paid $44 billion to buy Twitter – almost certainly an overpayment – and he promptly made significant changes that plunged the company into chaos and sent its ad business and...

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As polling methods evolve, it can be hard to distinguish solid findings from those that dissolve under scrutiny.

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Time's Up for crappy governance (fingers crossed). Why did anyone think it was a good idea?

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