There are significant gaps in Australia’s regulatory framework when it comes to electoral misinformation and disinformation served through paid-for advertising. This research demonstrates issues with platform responses to electoral misinformation served through paid-for advertising and weaknesses in platform transparency reports to the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation.

What can be done to ensure that high-quality, independent journalism—instead of misinformation and clickbait—can still attract public attention when news dissemination is increasingly mediated by digital platforms? Several groups are now trying to solve this challenge by developing and promoting digital markers, akin to nutrition labels, that signify reliability and credibility of news online. This...

This investigation set out to explore whether digital platforms remove electoral process misinformation when they are made aware of it via user-reporting.

The purpose of this report is to detect and analyse coordinated activity that occurred on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Reddit during the initial Republican Primary Debate and the counter-programmed Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump interview on 23rd August 2023.

This report explores the phenomenon of ‘incels’—involuntary celibates—and the misogynistic ideology that underpins a subset of this global community of men that has become a thriving Internet subculture. It examines how online spaces are providing a platform for gender-based, violent extremism.