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Opinions are strong – and divided – on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

Social media’s taken a giant leap to the right. Will it sway Australian voters?

If the move alters the campaign environment here, it’s likely to benefit Peter Dutton more than Anthony Albanese.

  • Sean Kelly

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Tennis great Ash Barty is hot property on the social-media influencer circuit.

‘You are the new billboard’: Why celebrities and influencers converge on the tennis

Everyone wants something different, but they all happily converge on Melbourne Park for the Australian Open.

  • Stephen Brook
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‘Modern-day talkback radio’: the Liberals’ video deluge is part of a plan

From day-in-the-life videos to cocktail-making clips, the Liberal Party has a strategy to capitalise on social media’s dominant format.

  • Olivia Ireland
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has reshaped the company’s approach to the truth.

In one fell swoop, Meta enters its ‘post-truth’ era

With Wednesday’s decision, Mark Zuckerberg has cemented Silicon Valley’s radical facelift as it cosies up to President-elect Donald Trump.

  • David Swan
Position, position, position … competing cabanas at Bondi Beach.

Hear, hear, Albo: Get these cabana sand-bagsers off our beaches

We might merely fantasise about giving them a sunscreen enema, but the prime minister was right to call out their bad manners.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Australian on Meta’s ‘Supreme Court’ warns of tensions over fact-checking curb

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the role of the recent US elections in his thinking, saying they “feel like a cultural tipping point”.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Barriers to the culinary arts should be removed so younger generations can enjoy cooking.

Social media chefs are putting kids off cooking, says nutrition expert

The warning comes amid a boom for food influencers, who are serving up what some have branded “food porn” on television, Instagram and TikTok.

  • Craig Simpson
Mother and child doing well: Bethany Williams with her daughter.

Instagram almost shamed me into refusing pain relief in childbirth

Social media algorithms told me that I had to give birth at home, without drugs. But my baby didn’t care about the influencers’ rules around childbirth.

  • Bethany Williams
Dr Laura Ryan at her nearly off the grid home in Newtown.

One big bummer ruined Laura Ryan’s dream of going off-grid in the inner city

Dr Laura Ryan has been a guinea pig for how to go off the grid in a small inner-city terrace. She nearly succeeded, except for “one real bummer” that cut her energy production by half.

  • Julie Power
At the end of the day, it’s up to parents to enforce rules around social media and devices.

Stop blaming social media and take the phone off your kids

If your teenager is raging out of control because you haven’t enforced strong enough boundaries around devices, maybe it’s time to stop blaming social media and look in the mirror.

  • Nicole Jameson

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