Once I felt love,connection,excitement … but it’s time to break up with my X

Once I felt love,connection,excitement … but it’s time to break up with my X

I’ve gone from ‘Tweet Ups’ where we’d meet at a cafe to explore this exciting media frontier,to a terrifying digital wasteland straight out of Mad Max.

  • byNic Hayes

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Hey Elon,assassination is hilarious,right? #duck!

Hey Elon,assassination is hilarious,right? #duck!

Perhaps it was overkill to use X to complain that “no one was even trying” to shoot Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.

  • byMichelle Cazzulino
President McGregor? Why Ireland dreads UFC champion’s flirtation with politics

President McGregor? Why Ireland dreads UFC champion’s flirtation with politics

“The Notorious” is dangling plans for a 2025 Irish presidential bid. Some say he could be the Trump the country needs.

  • byRob Harris
Political lies to be captured in Labor misinformation regime

Political lies to be captured in Labor misinformation regime

The plan will give federal authorities the power to force tech giants to act on alerts about damaging falsehoods.

  • byDavid Crowe andPaul Sakkal
Yes,PM,we should keep kids off the apps. But how,exactly?
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Yes,PM,we should keep kids off the apps. But how,exactly?

The prime minister has made a surprising jump when there are huge doubts about a workable social media ban for children. But Australia does have a real problem.

  • byDavid Crowe
Drinking,smoking ... now social media:New laws to ban children from apps

Drinking,smoking ... now social media:New laws to ban children from apps

The prime minister will announce the plan on Tuesday as governments seek to solve a problem “no generation has faced before”.

  • byDavid Crowe andPaul Sakkal
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As EV sales slump Elon Musk comes up Trumps

As EV sales slump Elon Musk comes up Trumps

At the risk of turning off the fans who jumped first for EVs,Elon Musk has dug in with the world’s most prominent climate sceptic:Donald Trump.

  • byNick O'Malley
Defending our democracy:How a cranky uncle,Swedish inspo and ‘pre-bunking’ help out

Defending our democracy:How a cranky uncle,Swedish inspo and ‘pre-bunking’ help out

Our home-grown election system is the envy of the Western world. Will it be enough to inoculate us from AI,fake news and other threats to our way of life?

  • byNick Bryant
The far right is the only place left for Elon Musk’s X-rated ego
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Elon Musk

The far right is the only place left for Elon Musk’s X-rated ego

Many are wondering how the poster boy for futurism ended up sounding like a conspiracy-theory-spouting uncle. But what if we’re all missing the point?

  • byJoan Westenberg
Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened

Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened

“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.

  • byDaniel Carvalho
Ward on wrong track on trains blame game

Ward on wrong track on trains blame game

South Coast commuters have been seeing the now five-year-delayed intercity trains run empty,on test,for many months. They are a ghost fleet.