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Influencers don’t want to be known by that name. They prefer ‘content creator’

Last week, four Australian foreign correspondents were shot at by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Longer term trends in digital news consumption are becoming clearer even as they are disrupted by emerging developments.

What do ‘slithy’ and ‘mimsy’ have in common? Aside from sounding like pet names for English aristocrats

Trust, technology and turbulence | Issue 10, 2025

This week, we’re looking at the pace and scope of development in the AI space.

We usually think of ACMA as the media and communications regulator.

American venture capitalist and tech analyst Mary Meeker has delivered an epic 340-page report on AI Trends

Listen to our latest episode of Double Take where we dive into the complex and timely topic of populism

Throughout the election campaign, the Liberal Party and its leader oscillated between alignment with and distance from Donald Trump

We have a new communications minister – or more accurately, we have a sports minister who will take on communications

Since his inauguration as US president in January, Donald Trump’s influence has been felt in the domestic politics of nations around the world.

Listen to Kieran Lindsay on our Podcast Double Take with Ruairi Harrison, who is an expert in the European Union’s out-of-court dispute resolution process under its Digital Services Act.

Donald Trump’s efforts to influence international tech regulation are heating up. Wielding threats of retaliatory tariffs on foreign imports, he is seeking to shut down any regulation which imposes taxes, penalties or other burdens on tech companies.

Ruairí Harrison spoke on the European Union’s out-of-court dispute resolution process introduced by Article 21 of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Last week Media Watch broadcast an investigation that alleged ABC Chair Kim Williams used his influence to secure coverage for the comedian Sandy Gutman.

If Donald Trump was the third force disrupting this election, the rise of influencers, podcasters and the proliferation of fake accounts and bots are surely the fourth.

The propensity of the political class to express its views/dislike/concerns about news media isn’t new.

You’d think the federal election would be enough, but so much more has spilled out of the last fortnight – with new twists in old tales.

 Australia has made global headlines again for its leading role in addressing online safety for minors. TIME magazine's recent cover story commends Anthony Albanese’s proactive stance on digital safety and discusses the broader challenges of implementing the under-16s social media ban.

As Australians prepare for the upcoming federal election and early voting is now open, new investigations reveal how industry-backed groups are increasingly using covert campaigns to influence public perceptions.

The golden bros at Meta can’t make up their minds. Are they about family and friends or are they into public content?

This year on Double Take, we’ve had Sacha Molitorisz bring us The Year in Media Transition 2024

President Trump continues to attack news media – with respected news organisations booted from the Pentagon and the White House media Corp whilst media sympathetic to the new President have been invited in, to silence the din of criticism.

One million in one hour. That is the claimed number of new users to have signed up to ChatGPT on the back of OpenAI’s release of new image generation capabilities.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) first Media Diversity Measurement Framework Report is out.

With the election campaign in full swing, the Australian Electoral Commission is taking a pro-active approach to tackling the inevitable challenges posed by the digital media environment

The Australian Electoral Commission has dismissed Victorian Senator Jane Hume’s complaint that a local news startup is a “highly sophisticated digital disinformation campaign” designed to influence the next federal election. 

Earlier this month, Samantha Strable, also known as Sam Jones, fled Australia after a viral wombat snatching video sparked public outrage. Unfortunately, other women with the same name received hate messages and death threats on social media.

Well, it’s week 2 (or is it 3?) of the election campaign.

Every budget week for over a decade, I’ve recalled the audacity in Sarah Ferguson’s opening question to then Treasurer, Joe Hockey: ‘It’s a Budget with a new tax, with levies, with co-payments: Is it liberating for a politician to decide that election promises don’t matter?”

A series of ads from Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party provoked widespread public backlash when they were run in several newspapers a fortnight ago.