As Australia starts to implement much needed digital regulation on a number of issues, there is a need to ensure policy initiatives are joined up and coherent. This document presents five overarching policy principles that could assist policy-makers.

Australia's News Media and Digital Platform Mandatory Bargaining Code was a step towards compelling digital platforms to pay publishers for content, but represents a missed opportunity. This report sets out recommendations for how the Code could have matched its original ambition in securing a fair and competitive internet.

This paper documents how YouTube’s algorithms contribute to promoting misogynistic and extremist content to Australian boys and young men. It recommends Australia strengthens the regulatory framework governing digital platforms to address systemic risks relating to gender-based violence.

This report describes findings from a survey of 16 to 17-year-old Australians, finding widespread exposure to content promoting extreme weight loss and unhealthy diets on Instagram. It highlights the algorithmic amplification of eating disorder content on Instagram, and how it profits from this practice.

Disinformation has fundamentally altered the functioning of our public square and our democracy. Increasingly, fair and factual debate is a rarity. The experiment outlined in this report sought to test Facebook’s ad review system by attempting to approve advertisements that explicitly promoted election disinformation narratives that were common in the last US election.