Internet Culture

From corflutes on street corners to 'brain rot' memes on social media, political parties are pulling out all of the stops in an attempt to snag your vote this election. Gruen's panel of advertising brains break down the tricks from the (campaign) trail.

Advocates say social media is a "lifeline" for young people with disability, so they should be part of designing and testing elements of the federal government's ban.

The Australian government has attempted to force the social media giants to pay for the news that they profit from. But in the last year the broligarchs have torn up those contracts.

A new tool created by researchers at the Queensland University of Technology is allowing people to see themselves through the eyes of the algorithm.

Papers filed last week accuse the online influencer, a self-described misogynist, of rape and sexual assault, and of pointing a gun at a woman's face.

A single bot generated and published millions of articles on the largest non-English version of Wikipedia. The results caused a rift among editors — and a glimpse of what the online encyclopedia might face from AI.

Thousands of creatives have signed the petition which calls for an end to the unlicensed use of creative work to train generative AI models.

The traditional entertainment model is changing fast, with younger audiences moving away from pay TV and traditional media. 

The AEC was asked to consider whether Abbie Chatfield, Labor and the Greens needed to authorise podcast clips they posted jointly on Instagram.

US President Donald Trump and his cabinet will meet to consider a proposal ahead of an April 5 deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or be banned in the United States.

Records revealed by Reuters show the teen, who now has access to departments including Homeland Security, provided services to a cyber crime ring known as "EGodly" prior to his US government role. 

Privacy rights have been raised after a content creator from the United States covertly filmed women in Sydney using smart glasses. These are your rights when it comes to being filmed or recorded in public.

The mother of British transgender teen Brianna Ghey speaks out in support of a social media ban for children aged under 16.

A quick search reveals how common, casual and uncoupled from shame and insult the term now is.

Netflix's new one-take crime drama takes toxic masculinity to a violent extreme. We asked an expert to help us unpack how reflective Adolescence is of our real world.

Ahmad Rashad Nadir, 27 and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, were charged over a video where they allegedly made threats to Israeli patients.

The future rarely unfolds like we expect. Although Hollywood has given us plenty of technological tropes to worry about, our AI future is much more mundane and much more insidious.

The Microsoft-owned service was a pioneer in live video calls but later lost ground to competing programs such as Zoom.

A cyber security expert says police need to be sending a stronger message to offenders who create fake AI porn, especially involving young people.

Podcast interviews were a key part of the US presidential campaign and now Australia's federal election is looming, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are turning to audio to reach voters.