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How did a retracted Egyptian study end up in Australian clinical guidelines?

Of all social media platforms, I hated Facebook the most. Then I fell pregnant

The very thing that once drove me away from the platform soon became the things I craved the most throughout my first trimester.

  • Melissa Mason

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Anthony Albanese, Abbie Chatfield, Peter Dutton and Sam Fricker.

Soft questions, angry comments: Albanese and Dutton hit the podcast campaign

Albanese and Dutton have embraced a strategy that helped return Trump to the White House: courting influencers who lob soft questions for audiences who don’t follow mainstream news.

  • Nick Bonyhady, Calum Jaspan, Olivia Ireland and Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants to make social media safer for children.

Meta says Labor taking secretive approach to social ban amid Trump threat

As Labor plots a restriction on teens using social media, Donald Trump is threatening tariffs against countries that target American tech firms.

  • Paul Sakkal
Rhi, Sam Kerr and Meghan Markle side-by-side.

Here’s my truth: I’m sick of other people’s ‘truths’

Spare me the psychobabble. None of us own the truth. It’s not something we can sculpt to suit our personal preferences.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Jason Haines, the managing director of Canberra food relief charity St John’s Care, said it made him “physically sick” to know that scammers were “preying on people that are basically going without”.

‘I can’t buy food for my children’: Facebook profits from charity scams costing taxpayers

Facebook operator Meta has been repeatedly warned about a nasty genre of scam ads targeting Australians, but they continue to be published.

  • Aisha Dow
Pete Evans in a post he shared on social media on the day Donald Trump was re-elected as US president.

He was banned from social media. So how come chef Pete Evans is back?

The election of Donald Trump and the installation of Robert F Kennedy Jr as his secretary of health has put fresh wind in the sails of the disgraced celebrity chef.

  • Karl Quinn
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has no intention of removing Kevin Rudd from his Washington post.

‘Mayhem’: Trump tariff threat forces Australia to pause big tech levy

The Albanese government has decided to go slow on a scheme to hit digital platforms if they refuse to pay local media outlets for news articles.

  • Paul Sakkal and David Crowe
The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.

Why is everyone suddenly in their professional photoshoot era?

The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.

  • Mali Waugh
Growing up in a time of “likes” and “views”, I may be one of the lucky ones.

I grew up with social media but dodged its worst effects. I might be the exception

New research indicates young people’s plummeting mental health isn’t just correlated with social media use – it’s caused by it.

  • Millie Muroi
Teal MPs Allegra Spender (left) and Monique Ryan.

Monique Ryan and Allegra Spender spend more than $150,000 on Google and Meta ads

In the last three months, the major parties, lobby groups and unions have also spent hundreds of thousands on social media in a bid to reach voters online.

  • Olivia Ireland

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