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Parents Mia Bannister (left), Robb Evans and Emma Mason with Communications Minister Anika Wells and Anthony Albanese at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

Google cancels parliamentary lobbying concert at last minute after YouTube ban

Rock band The Rubens were scheduled to play for Google on Wednesday night, but the company pulled the show, saying it risked being disrespectful.

  • Olivia Ireland

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Wiggles management lobbied against the government’s social media ban including YouTube, but were largely rejected.

Australia to take teen social media ban plan global, despite Wiggles’ complaints

Anthony Albanese will present world leaders with Australia’s ban on under-16s using apps such as YouTube and Instagram at an event in New York.

  • Olivia Ireland
The major platforms have emphasised how they are improving the calibre of their systems and taking down volumes of malicious posts.

YouTube threatens to sue if roped into social media ban

Labor’s decision to make YouTube’s threat public before the platform itself shows its resolve in taking on tech giants whose power has grown under the Trump administration.

  • Callum Godde and Paul Sakkal
Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London during their state visit to the UK earlier this month.

‘Global humiliation’: Macron sues influencer over claim his wife was born male

The French president has accused Candace Owens of waging a lie-filled campaign against France’s first lady to promote her podcast.

  • Jonathan Stempel and Michel Rose
Podcaster and diver Sam Fricker, Hannah Ferguson of Cheek Media, podcaster Abbie Chatfield, conservative think tank staffer Freya Leach.

Australians believe influencers peddle misinformation. So why are they so popular?

A deep generational divide is widening, with social media now the second most sought-after medium for news.

  • Calum Jaspan
The Netflix Vine Studios building in Los Angeles, California.

From cable to clicks: Is streaming on Netflix the next frontier for TV news?

Reinventing the news wheel is tough. But spinning it off a streaming platform is an idea rich with potential.

  • Michael Idato
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Not all “paper time”is equal.

Not all screen time is equal: Wrestling with a YouTube ban for kids

I’m a sceptic about how the social media ban for under-16s will work, but if we must have it, YouTube can’t be exempted.

  • Daisy Turnbull
Horrors are out there: “Cartoon Cat in his Mall”, by Canadian horror artist Trevor Henderson.

As a parent, I thought a YouTube ban was absurd. I’ve realised I was blind to the dangers

I’ve always done my best to protect our kids online. But I was shocked to realise I’d inadvertently left them able to access violent, misogynistic, hateful and psychologically unsafe material.

  • Michael Coulter
Julie Inman Grant. eSafety Commissioner, during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

eSafety boss reveals scale of ‘harmful’ videos on YouTube, urges ban for children

Four in 10 young teenagers have been exposed to harmful content such as eating disorder videos on the platform, which is set to escape the child social media ban.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Lunch with journalist and novelist Jacqueline Maley

Two journalists, an eclectic restaurant and Taylor Swift: Inside the making of Jac Maley’s new book

Long before the world’s most popular singer ate there, columnist Jacqueline Maley could see potential in her favourite eating spot.

  • Melanie Kembrey

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