Social Media

Young Indigenous creators specialising in topics as innocuous as fishing and cooking have been met with torrents of abuse social media companies are reluctant to do anything about.

Indigenous leaders warn online racism is damaging young generations, calling on all social media users and publishers to take responsibility for hurtful comments.

A woman who filmed a Provac Australia driver making an apparent racist gesture to her rideshare driver faces legal action from a company directed by a former One Nation candidate.

When a social media appeal went out for birthday wishes, Cliff Kimlin's family never imagined it would bring rugby league legends Alfie Langer and Petero Civoniceva to the birthday celebrations.

In a damning submission, an age-check firm warns big fines may be seen as a "small price to pay" if copping them allows Australia's ban to be "wrongly" be portrayed as a failure.

Authorities received more than 2,200 complaints of sexual extortion in Australia between July and December 2025. Most victims were young men and boys. Two people targeted by scammers share their experience.

Clay first tried drugs during lunchtime at school. What followed was a decade of addiction and run-ins with police. Now he hopes sharing his story will help others.

Tourists looking to get a picture of canola fields are often told to steer clear, but one central Victorian farm is welcoming them with open arms and has turned the attraction into a popular agritourism event.

Across the country's protest hotspots, India's gen Z are using meme culture as part of their hopes to bring the country into a new dawn.

French lawmakers have approved a ban on social media access for children under the age of 15

ABC's America's editor John Lyons - who famously attracted the ire of the US President for asking about his business dealings - joins The Business to discuss the ethical and potential legal concerns over the US President selling early access to his posts.

Papua New Guinea prepares new laws to criminalise the malicious use of artificial intelligence, including deepfakes, voice cloning and digital impersonation.

Andrew and Tristan Tate's attorney says an attempt to extradite the brothers following their arrest in Miami is politically motivated. 

Most of us never chose to live in an artificial intelligence (AI) world. Yet over the past few years, it has become part of everyday life, changing how we think, learn and communicate.

Jacinta Allan is pledging nation-leading laws forcing tech giants to reveal the identity of trolls, and make it easier for parents to sue tech giants that cause psychiatric harm to their children.

More and more countries are following Australia's lead and introducing social media bans for children, but US policies are piecemeal and vary from state to state.

A minister of the Crown's scolding of a journalist asking a legitimate question about firearm ownership, and the subsequent pile-on allowed to run on social media, should ring alarm bells for anyone concerned with democracy.

People find community with other bookworms as social reading takes off with everything from literature raves to book bedazzling.

SA Police have arrested the alleged organiser of a 'fight club' and reported seven other teenagers they allege were linked to videos of amateur bouts that were posted online.

Don't plan a bushwalk based on what an Instagram influencer may have supposedly achieved, a veteran rescuer says, ahead of Tasmania's winter season.