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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and  Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams.

How Meta tried to silence a tell-all book and failed

The social media giant has been growing increasingly intolerant of employee critics and leakers. But its attempts to stop the latest whistleblower are not working.

  • Naomi Nix

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump in a Tesla at the White House.

Musk and big tech urge Trump to punish Australia

The companies have blamed Australia for “coercing” them into sacrificing their revenue to schemes such as the News Media Bargaining Incentive.

  • David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady

Yo, tech bros, I feel your pain. Trump’s messing with my personal wealth, too

I realise I’m not a billionaire thought leader, but these are hard times, even if your new BFF is in the Oval Office.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
Many are describing Musk’s assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn’t quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily.

Trump slump leaves president’s billionaire friends $335 billion poorer

As Donald Trump took the oath of office on January 20, he was flanked by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. They had never been richer. How things have changed.

  • Dylan Sloan
Bill Gates at the 2024 World Health Summit.

‘I’m not at the top of the list’: Bill Gates and the divisive power of billionaires

Thirty years ago, Bill Gates created the model for the in-your-face technology mogul that shook up the world. Today, he looks on bemused as Musk, Zuckerberg and co. wield their power.

  • David Streitfeld
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Mick Gatto has staged an intervention in the Werribee byelection.

Why Mick Gatto thinks politicians should be charged with perjury

The underworld figure and former boxer is spruiking a policy of self-defence classes in high schools in the Werribee byelection.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese.

‘Astounding’: Dutton turns up heat over PM’s knowledge of caravan plot

Peter Dutton’s demand for more detail comes as NSW Police says it has established crime scenes in Sydney’s eastern suburbs after discovering antisemitic graffiti.

  • Matthew Knott and Sally Rawsthorne
Sixteen members of the National Socialist Network were arrested in Adelaide when they marched on Australia Day.

Musk’s X enables Australia’s neo-Nazis, warn Coalition and online watchdog

White supremacists and leaders of Australia’s National Socialist Network (NSN) were previously banned or censored on X before returning in the past year or so. 

  • Paul Sakkal
Trump called DeepSeek’s arrival a “wake-up call” for US companies who must focus on “competing to win”.

Deep impact: China’s AI tidal wave hits Trump, and Australia

The cheap, open AI model has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley. Has Australia already been left behind or does DeepSeek’s rapid rise, despite limited resources, mean something similar could emerge locally?

  • David Swan

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