A bipartisan report has made 17 recommendations – based on the liberal tradition of transparency, not censorship – to make Australia a harder target for malicious actors to interfere in our democracy through social media apps.
Social media platforms are not just the dominant communications channels in modern societies, they are the public square for democracies.
As the Australian Human Rights Commission noted, social media can be used to strengthen and undermine our democracy. While it has increased access to information and facilitated a broader range of voices in our democracy, the proliferation of disinformation threatens our public institutions and social cohesion.
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Senator James Paterson is Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media.
