Analysis
Sloppery slope: How AI slop feeds the alt-right pipeline
Absurd AI slop is pouring into social feeds, ready to slip you into the alt-right pipeline, writes Varsha Yajman.
Big Tech
Explainers
TikTok vs Universal Music Group: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Artists?
The big corporations involved can afford to go back and forth on artists' livelihoods but the artists themselves cannot.
Explainers
Climate Skepticism Is Increasing – What If We Could Hack Our Way Out Of That?
42% of Australians are climate skeptics... We can’t let this group get any bigger.
Explainers
Australia's Entertainment Industry Is The Nightmare Hollywood Strikes Are Trying to Avoid
Australia's local industry is The Bad Place when compared to Hollywood.
Explainers
Internet Regulation Sucks Right Now. Is It An Impossible Challenge?
Can we have adequate online protection while maintaining our digital freedom? Good questions, tough answers.
Interview
Economist Alison Pennington Explains Why Neoliberalism Has Fucked Your Life (And How We Start to Fix It)
"It’s incredibly damaging for young Australians to internalize a system designed to fail them, as their own individual failures."
Explainers
Asking The Obvious: Why Does It Matter If China Can Access Australian TikTok Data?
Why is this any different to Meta selling our data?
Opinion
This is Why Elon Musk Doing Basically Anything (Including Trying to Buy Twitter) Feels So Off
His experiments actually affect us.
2022 Election
How to Stop Your Grandparents Getting Sucked In By Political Disinformation, According To An Expert
Time to email your grandparents!
2022 Election
TikTok Will Influence the Outcome of 2022 Federal Election – For Better & Worse
Would you let an anonymous stan political stan account tell you how to vote?
Opinion
New Medium, Same Problems: Fashion Content Looks Exactly the Same in the Metaverse
Way back in the day, I used to have a fashion blog. Or rather, a “fatshion” blog – I was a woman who was just coming to terms with loving her plus-sized body and I wanted to develop the confidence to share it. I had a website where I shared outfit
Explainers
Why the 'Helpful' Misinformation You're Sharing on Social Media Is Still Harmful
Controversial statement: fake news needs a rebrand. Most people have an idea of what they think 'misinformation' is, and who's behind it – social media content and comments spouting anti-democracy, far right or 'conservative' falsehoods, made by garden variety trolls or coordinated groups wanting to