From injury to insult

In this issue of our newsletter, Derek Wilding outlines CMT’s feedback on the proposed Stage 2 Defamation Reforms, one aim of which is to clarify the liability of digital intermediaries for third-party comments. This is a pressing problem for Australian news media after the High Court’s Voller decision last year.

Anne Kruger examines the steep rise in disinformation associated with anti-government protests in New Zealand, which had been going on largely unnoticed by the Australian media until Avi Yemini hit the spotlight.

Speaking of Avi Yemini, Chris Hall looks at the rapidly growing viewership of young independent journalists on social media, suggesting that the fuss over whether these upstarts are really journalists is by the by.

And in a week where the death of the Queen has led to an outpouring of emotion – both positive and negative – Sacha Molitorisz asks how we decide which insults bear repeating. Read it in full:

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 Michael Davis, CMT Research Fellow