Understanding how social media algorithms work offers advantages that extend far beyond simply getting more likes or ...

Social media algorithms have fundamentally altered how information spreads online, often amplifying misleading content faster ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

We’ll require social media platforms to provide user empowerment tools that give people over the age of 16 genuine and ...

On ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, federal Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek said the government is exploring whether Australians should be able to opt in to algorithmically curated social ...

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the ...

In my recent book, Rethinking How We Think: Integrative Meta-perspective and the Cognitive “Growing Up” on Which Our Future Depends, I went into detail about the dangers of device addiction and what ...

Months after kicking off a wave of teen social media bans, Australia is now coming for social media algorithms.

There have long been calls for digital duty of care laws in Australia – since well before the under-16s social media ban. But ...

Australia plans to let social media users choose algorithmic or follow-only feeds under new digital safety rules targeting ...

Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications ...