Social media
Alternative labels
Online social networks
Guide
Start the chat and stay safe online
This resources is designed to educate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and carers of children aged 5 – 18 about the importance of starting the chat with young people around online safety.
Transcript
Rod Sims' address to the 2019 Competition Law Conference
Transcript of ACCC Chair, Rod Sims' addresses the 2019 Competition Law Conference, discussing the merger regime in relation to digital platforms.
Report
Perception inception: preparing for deepfakes and the synthetic media of tomorrow
Synthetic media technologies have huge potential benefits, but they also have risks. Public awareness of this risk of deception has grown through discussion of one kind of emerging audiovisual technology known as “deepfakes”. This research report considers the wide-ranging social, legal and policy issues arising.
Journal article
Using Facebook to reduce smoking among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a participatory grounded action study
The results from this study suggest that anti-smoking content designed to be shared on social media should complement, rather than attempt to replicate, messages from tobacco control mass media campaigns.
Report
Hacking democracies: cataloguing cyber-enabled attacks on elections
Trust in democratic and other key institutions has declined, and this is compounded by new capabilities of adversaries seeking to interfere in elections and to undermine people’s trust in those institutions. This policy brief explores areas where interference has been detected across the world and considers key learnings from those examples.