Doubts about Labor’s bill,which could be rammed through parliament this week,have expanded to include more mainstream Coalition MPs.
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.
The Coalition called the misinformation bill an Orwellian ministry of truth,but the Greens said it was too compromised to stamp out dangerous lies and conspiracies.
Billionaire Elon Musk doesn’t like the Albanese government’s proposed social media ban for children under 16.
As it moves to tamp down concerns about handing over IDs,the Albanese government will on Thursday put forward a world-first bill to block younger teens from social media.
St Pauli encouraged its 250,000 followers to switch to Bluesky,the rival social network championed by former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey.
Bernard Arnault has traded places with Elon Musk as the world’s richest man numerous times in recent years. Now the pair are set for a clash of a different kind.
Greens leader Adam Bandt condemned Babet’s posts,arguing that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory had emboldened the hard right.
The world’s richest man lent his considerable weight to Donald Trump’s campaign. Elon Musk is now even richer – and he has all-areas access to the president-elect.
I was in the audience when Radiohead’s Thom Yorke called a heckler a coward. This episode got me thinking about freedom and protest – and how not to go about it.
“Social media is doing harm to our kids,and I’m calling time on it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he announced the ban.