Research reveals that Facebook continues to permit surveillance advertising targeting children and teenagers, despite previous commitments to adopt a more cautious approach. Surveillance advertising involves the use of personal data collected from websites and platforms to deliver highly targeted ads. This report urges Facebook to publicly clarify its position and to fully discontinue the use...

Using data from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), this snapshot examines reports of online interactions from adolescents as they aged from 12-13 years to 16-17 years.

Operation Turon was an investigation by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) into the alleged police misconduct of then Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner, Brett Guerin.

This paper analyses the interplay between far-right and far-left groups in the state of Victoria, Australia, across a range of social media platforms. It provides an analysis of over 400,000 tweets produced by a sample of 151 far-left and 75 far-right Australian Twitter accounts since 2016.

This publication documents a timeline of major events over the course of Facebook’s history that demonstrate the unprecedented power the platform wields over politics and information systems globally. The authors argue that Australia remains vulnerable to mis- and disinformation, and does not have effective safeguards to shield the upcoming federal election from Facebook’s influence.