Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits,social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord,misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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How American liberalism lost its way and handed Trump a path to victory

Trump’s electoral resurrection was,in part,a rejection of the intolerance which has come to be emblematic of American progressivism.

  • George Brandis
Julianne Moore.

Trump Defence outfit pulls Julianne Moore’s picture book embracing freckles

The Oscar-winning actor says her book is semi-autobiographical and has been banned from more than 160 schools run by the Department of Defence Education Activity for military families.

  • Nell Geraets
Composite image by Aresna Villanueva.

When cancel culture goes this far,our democracy is in peril

An Australian human rights lawyer is the latest victim of a campaign to shut down Jewish people who dare to criticise Israel.

  • Josh Bornstein

Banning G-strings at public pools is a bummer for some,but it’s the right move

Blue Mountains City Council has banned G-string bikinis at its pools,causing online outrage. But not everyone wants to see your bare bum.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Anthony Albanese will go toe-to-toe with Adam Bandt’s Greens in Parliament this week over Labor’s agenda.

No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • David Crowe
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Multinational tech firms are being targeted by a swathe of new laws.

Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google&Co

The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
State Librarian and State Library WA chief executive Catherine Clark.

WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship

In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s,the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.

  • Hamish Hastie
Kanye West,known as Ye,watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed

Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.

  • Vivian Wang
Our cultural institutions are having to decide to what extent,if any,they are platforms for political discussion.

When art and politics collide:The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

Sackings,boycotts,sponsorship withdrawals:arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?

  • Kerrie O'Brien