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‘Completely worthless’: Flawed abortion pill ‘study’ cited in parliament
Multiple members of NSW Parliament have cited a flawed US report on the safety of a medical abortion pill, during…
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Was Dutton voted Australia’s worst health minister? It’s complicated
Australians are being targeted with misleading claims originating from bias or poorly constructed polls and surveys. Not all polls are…
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Deepfake Peter Dutton speaking Mandarin spotlights misinformation threat
阅读中文版 A series of attacks on Australian political parties on emerging Chinese social media platform RedNote (RED), has raised concerns…
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How an error sparked a misinformation spiral over asylum-seeker visas
For News Corp tabloids it was a delicious scoop: evidence that Labor had opened the floodgates to the families and…
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‘It looked exactly like me’: Melbourne doctor finds himself at centre of deepfake scam
A leading diabetes expert has been forced to reassure his patients they’re on the right medication after they saw an…
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ABC chair warns Australia ‘flooded’ with misinformation days after government abandons bill to tackle social media content
The ABC’s chair Kim Williams has warned Australia is being “flooded” with misinformation and disinformation, just days after the federal…
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Laws to regulate misinformation online abandoned, gambling advertising ban pushed to next year
Laws that would have forced social media companies to police misinformation and outright lies on their platform have been formally…
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Under proposed laws the truth about COVID-19 could have been struck from the internet
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, public health officials said it was not an airborne disease and instead travelled by…
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