Tech crackdown
US government pushes to break up Google to fix search monopoly
The US Justice Department has asked a federal court to force Google to sell Chrome, its popular web browser – a move that could reshape competition on the internet.
- by David McCabe
Latest
Analysis
Are we ready for an internet with no Google search?
Twenty-five years ago, Google’s minimalist search engine was a revelation. What would happen if the US government moved to break up its dominance?
- by David Swan
Meta admits Australians cannot opt out of ‘predatory’ AI data scrape
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU.
- by David Swan
Exclusive
ALP
Government hammers big tech with barrage of new laws
Albanese has vowed to protect Australian sovereignty, while others in the government confirmed the plans for reforms on copyright, payments, content and online safety.
- by David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Elon Musk
‘Dark patterns’: European Commission is ticked off by Elon Musk’s X, again
The European Commission sees evidence of “motivated malicious actors” using X’s blue ticks to deceive users. Musk fires back, claiming that the EC offered his company “an illegal secret deal”.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Technology & democracy
Trump just shook up America’s war on TikTok
If there’s one thing that unites an otherwise bitterly divided Washington, it’s China. But Donald Trump has just stirred the pot.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Exclusive
Crime
How social media giants created a ‘paedophile paradise’
Australia used new laws to gain a world-first insight into how social media giants respond to child abuse material – and found a culture of “wilful blindness”
- by Jordan Baker
TikTok, YouTube could be targeted under Australia’s media code
The federal government is considering whether it should use landmark laws to force tech platforms such as YouTube and TikTok to negotiate with news outlets.
- by Zoe Samios and Nick Bonyhady
Chinese-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua jailed for 13 years, fined $11.7 billion
The imprisonment of Xiao Jianhua brings to an end a long-running saga that has seen many of the tycoon’s business interests reined in since he was seized in Hong Kong more than five years ago.
- by Bloomberg News
Opinion
Inside China
Xi Jinping’s year of triumph has been derailed by turmoil
This wasn’t the 2022 that Xi Jinping had in mind.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
In trolls and tech giants, Morrison finds an ideal enemy
The Coalition party room has no shortage of MPs with first-hand or family experience of how toxic social media can be. Now the government is making cleaning up the internet part of its pitch to voters.
- by Nick Bonyhady and Lisa Visentin
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