World-first litigation sees Australia yet again become ‘ground zero’ for a showdown between public interest regulation and one of big tech’s worst online harm offenders.
Talking a tough game on “big tech” is now core vocabulary for most governments. The public is gradually realising that anything from an online annoyance to an online harm probably links back to externalities from social media companies’ business models.
Facebook, of course, is one of the worst offenders and equally one of the slipperiest operators.
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Alice Dawkins is the Executive Director of Reset.Tech Australia, a tech accountability research and policy organisation. She is a former employee of Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation.
