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The proposed changes come after child safety advocates accused the federal government of not doing enough to keep kids safe online.

TikTok creators say using this filter will raise money for charity. It's the latest example of digital activism sweeping social media platforms, but it sounds a little too good to be true — so, is it?

Jaimen Hudson has helped bring international recognition to beaches near Esperance. But the local filmmaker, who lives with quadriplegia, struggles to access one of its most iconic stretches of coastline.

X Corp, formerly Twitter, will file a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk has said. 

Scammers are using multinational brands — including a food delivery company and beloved character Paddington Bear — in a bid to steal money from Australian Facebook users.

TikTok says it will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden's 2002 letter detailing the former Al Qaeda leader's justifications for attacks against Americans.

Many perinatal specialists believe that new mothers need more support in the fourth trimester — the 12 weeks after birth. They're turning to social media for it.

Instagram and TikTok users are being lured to their deaths in the search for the perfect selfie, researchers have found.

Heartbreak High actor and disability rights advocate Chloé Hayden has taken a step back from Instagram, due to abuse affecting her mental and physical health.

The tools allow advertisers to create backgrounds, adjust images and produce variations of ad copy in response to simple text prompts.

The words emblazoned across the ads are dramatic, and they're usually accompanied by a photoshopped or AI-generated image of an Australian celebrity being arrested. It's an attempt to take your money.

Spend some time scrolling social media and you're all but guaranteed to see an ad promising to help you with targeted fat loss. Unfortunately, it is not possible to target the location of fat loss.

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says capitalism is dead and that we are now "serfs" for the likes of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

As 360,000 Israeli reservists flock to join the war effort against Hamas, some returning volunteers and their families have asked why Yair Netanyahu is not among them.

Screen Australia has released its latest Drama Report, which shows in part how Australian creators are reaching tens of millions of people around the world by tapping into audiences who have an appetite for content not being picked up on mainstream channels.

Halloween revellers gathered in central Shanghai late on Tuesday night, with some dressing in costumes that poked fun at Chinese authorities in a rare showcase of free expression.

In the year since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform now known as X, has reportedly halved in value, and is considered "no longer safe" for users in countries where freedom of expression has increasingly come under threat.

After varroa mite ruined his first hives and bushfire wrecked his second, NSW Mid North Coast beekeeper Glenn Locke has vowed he will "get going again".

Named after the Wiradjuri word for "change" or "refreshment", the ground-breaking mobile app Gurray translates English words into seven different Aboriginal languages.

When it comes to celebrities, they aren't the main source of information people use, so why do we care so much about a celebrity's stance on news events?

Picking up unwanted items from the street is becoming a new trend among China's young generation, with city "stooping" groups emerging on social media across the country's major cities. 

A grim information war is raging parallel to the physical violence in Israel and Gaza, and while this form of warfare is as old as war itself, with help from social media it's now happening in real-time on a massive scale.

As the sun rises on a chilly Wollongong morning, a group of about 20 people gather for the Waves of Wellness program, each with their own unique story to tell.

Recently, I've been one of the many Australians who are avoiding the news. What is going on, when the news is losing not just its regular audience, but alienating a career newshound like me, asks Leigh Sales.

Researchers say sensationalist news reports about Queensland's "youth crime wave" are not backed by actual crime data.