This Month
Police contacted over threats to eSafety chief: court documents
Australia’s e-safety watchdog went to police after commissioner Julie Inman Grant received threats and online abuse after telling X Corp to take down a video of a brutal church stabbing.
- Miklos Bolza
Ken Griffin urges Harvard University to embrace ‘Western values’
The hedge fund founder who has given his alma mater more than $US500 million has slammed the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping colleges as “almost like performative art”.
- Harriet Agnew
April
Melbourne rivals hope Kyle and Jackie O’s sins haunt advertiser demand
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson signed a 10-year, $200 million contract late last year. Now they’re taking on Melbourne’s $220 million radio market.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Don’t want your kid to end up as a deepfake? Keep their face offline
The rise of AI has created new anxieties about how an innocent photo could be manipulated, so “sharenting” is out and privacy is in.
- Fortesa Latifi
- Opinion
- Web culture
I used to love Gmail. Here’s why I just quit it
The once-revolutionary email service, which started 20 years ago, has become as cluttered as the rest of the internet.
- Ezra Klein
Meta’s smart glasses are becoming AI. We took them for a spin
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use AI glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes.
- Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac
March
- Opinion
- Social media
It’s time to stop the smartphone experiment on our children
China has been way ahead of the west in seeing the dangers of raising a generation of zombies.
- Camilla Cavendish
Royals ‘enormously touched’ by support after cancer announcement
Kate’s statement via a video message, which was filmed at Windsor Castle, triggered an outpouring of support from well-wishers.
- James Davey, Hannah Ellison and Will Russell
Celebrities who mocked Princess of Wales called on to apologise
The princess’s cancer revelation sparked an outpouring of support and has prompted an outcry at some of the nasty conspiracy theories propagated recently.
- India McTaggart and Michael Murphy
‘Rocky’ Macron takes on Putin with boxing photos
The photos released online tried to show a tough line against Vladimir Putin. But they drew mixed reactions across Europe, from “warrior” to “prancing poseur”.
- Laurie Kellman and Sylvie Corbet
The ACCC is asking news outlets if they can live without Facebook
The competition regulator, in letters to major media groups, has sought details about how they make money from and deal with Meta, the platform’s operator.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Social media
TikTok made me write this – and it’s time for it to go
TikTok’s influence on young Australians goes beyond free speech and into sinister realms of undue influence.
- The Parrhesian
China lashes TikTok ban as US investors plot bid to buy app
Beijing urges Washington to “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies” as former Treasury head Steven Mnuchin wants to put together an investor group to buy it.
- Eleanor Olcott
Canberra’s stoush with Meta wins global support
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has fired a volley at Meta over scams and fraud – and 10 other ministers meeting in London backed him up.
- Hans van Leeuwen
How PwC helped Facebook argue its bill down in tax fight with ATO
The tech giant settled a long-running dispute with the tax office in 2017 for $31 million – here’s part of what PwC argued on Facebook’s behalf.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Edmund Tadros
This news start-up will lose half a million readers if Meta goes nuclear
The Daily Aus’ Sam Koslowski and Zara Seidler say they’ve spent three years building audiences outside of Meta’s platforms to prepare for moves to ban news.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Trump praises ‘fantastic’ Orban at Mar-a-Lago meeting
Donald Trump poked fun at criticism of the Hungarian prime minister’s self-proclaimed illiberal tendencies as the two populist leaders met at Florida resort.
- Zoltan Simon and Jennifer Jacobs
Trump storms to Biden rematch in ‘conclusive’ Super Tuesday win
Donald Trump and President Joe Biden won early Republican primaries in Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee, while the latter also took Iowa.
- Updated
- Hannah Knowles
Facebook, Instagram back online after global outage
A more than two-hour outage was caused by a technical issue and affected hundreds of thousands of users globally.
- Updated
- Reuters
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Play hardball and make Meta pay fair share for news
Now Facebook’s owner has thrown the ball back into the government’s court and has to be “designated” in the interests of professional newsrooms and serious journalism.
- The AFR View
