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In a scathing statement on Thursday, Meta echoed the White House and blasted the Albanese government’s News Bargaining Incentive as ‘discriminatory’.
The US President has long chafed against foreign efforts to regulate the American tech sector, which is deeply intertwined with his administration.
Australia’s largest media organisations, often rivals, are furiously agreeing on the Albanese government’s plan to compel tech giants to pay for journalism.
Stephen Koukoulas, Saul Eslake and Shane Oliver told Capital Brief scammers have been using their likenesses to spruik fake investment schemes on social media.
The eSafety commissioner, which has repeatedly clashed with the tech billionaire, is investigating fresh complaints over sexualised deepfakes created on AI platform Grok.
The online safety regulator has been flooded with complaints about posts relating to the terror attack but is yet to take action against any social media platform.
A campaign group tied to Australia’s teen social media ban drafted a sponsorship deck carrying a government logo to sell access and “influence”.
Australia’s world-first under-16 social media ban united Labor, tabloid media and campaigners in a rare alliance that could shape global online regulation.
Meta has stuck new AI news deals in France and the US, but Australia has seen sees no progress as Labor’s tech levy talks enter the home stretch.
As Australia’s child social media ban takes effect, a ministerial scandal and tech pushback threaten to overshadow one of the nation’s boldest digital reforms.
After the platform cancelled me for sharing one too many truths, I turned to my army of animatronic fish, the only network still willing to listen.
