Why is Elon Musk set to buy Twitter? What would he do with it?

Why is Elon Musk set to buy Twitter? What would he do with it?

Elon Musk says he would crush Twitter bots and make the social media platform more trustworthy platform. How?

  • byTim Biggs

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What is shadow banning? And what do social platforms say about it?
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Social media

What is shadow banning? And what do social platforms say about it?

All around the world,on all sides of the political spectrum,shadow banning is getting a bad rap. What is it?

  • byCarla Jaeger
Academics quit Melbourne University institute over foreign interference and free speech concerns

Academics quit Melbourne University institute over foreign interference and free speech concerns

A group of academics connected to the Australia India Institute at Melbourne University has resigned over concerns of foreign interference and an alleged clampdown on academic freedoms.

  • byCharmaine Manuel
Why I changed the law to stop protesters:fury of a minister caught in traffic jam
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Why I changed the law to stop protesters:fury of a minister caught in traffic jam

Natalie Ward,the NSW Minister for Metropolitan Roads,describes the day last month when she was caught in a traffic jam created by protesters.

  • byNatalie Ward
‘Un-Christian activity’:Police sergeant in the gun for online criticism of equality push

‘Un-Christian activity’:Police sergeant in the gun for online criticism of equality push

The force is divided over the disciplinary action being taken against the sergeant for his alleged criticism of Victoria Police’s campaign to promote workplace equality for its LGBTIQ members.

  • byCameron Houston
Nationals condemn Christensen’s appearance on ‘dark corners of the internet’

Nationals condemn Christensen’s appearance on ‘dark corners of the internet’

Coalition colleagues have castigated backbencher George Christensen’s decision to appear on a show hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones last week.

  • byNick Bonyhady
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What’s the proposed religious discrimination law about?
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Religion

What’s the proposed religious discrimination law about?

Where did the idea for the controversial bill come from? How would it work? And what happens next?

  • byRoyce Millar
The educational divide that threatens to split the left
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Culture wars

The educational divide that threatens to split the left

As the university-educated come to dominate the modern left,identity appears to be replacing class as its ideological touchstone.

  • byJames Button
Gender,sex and power:the debate dividing universities
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Culture wars

Gender,sex and power:the debate dividing universities

Universities are meant to be the domain of free speech,but they are struggling to wrestle with identity politics and the gender-critical feminism debate.

  • byJames Button
French far-right candidate ‘Le Z’ won’t be silenced,he says,skipping hate trial

French far-right candidate ‘Le Z’ won’t be silenced,he says,skipping hate trial

The firebrand,Eric Zemmour,a hard-right polemicist,said he would not appear at the trial as he refused “to accept that a political debate takes place in a courtroom”.

  • byHenry Samuel
The abuse of technology Modi won’t be talking about

The abuse of technology Modi won’t be talking about

India,under Narendra Modi,is using technology to curtail rights as part of an escalating crackdown on freedom of expression,association and peaceful assembly.

  • byElaine Pearson