This report examines age assurance measures on social media platforms used by young Australians. It combines regulatory data from social media services with survey responses from Australian children to assess the effectiveness of age restrictions. It finds inconsistent policies and an overall lack of robust interventions are failing to keep children off social media.

Online hate is one of the most prevalent forms of digital violence. This report explores encounters with online hate among adults in Australia including the prevalence, nature and impact of online hate among adults who belong to one or more of the targeted groups.

This working paper examines multimodal foundation models (MFMs), a type of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can process and output multiple data types, such as text, images and audio. It discusses some of the implications of this technology for consumer protection, competition, the media and information environment, privacy, and online safety within the digital platform...

Technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is not an in­tractable problem. This report, drawing on a case study around the online harassment of Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, assesses the state of research on TFGBV as well as recent global policy progress made on this issue, and offers a number of practical solutions to make...

The Office of the eSafety Commissioner recently issued notices requesting the development of Phase 2 codes to five industry bodies and associations who represent the sections of the online industry to which the codes will apply. To accompany these notices, eSafety has published this position paper setting out principles and suggestions for industry in developing...