We have increasing difficulty in integrating disparate views,and having civil disagreements. The only antidotes are slowness,nuance,and a tolerance for complexity – all things that are increasingly rare.
If Sunday is Sydney’s best chance to breathe out,to spend more time with family,friends and loved ones,then the city needs to exhale today.
Social media giant X has rejected demands from Australia’s eSafety commissioner to take down distressing images of this week’s Sydney knife attacks.
Political pressure on tech giants has grown throughout the week and leaders are fuming as misinformation and violent content continues to spread like “wildfire”.
After the awful,vitriolic and often ignorant public debate we’ve seen during the Lehrmann trial,now is the time to elevate the best drivers of change:experts,evidence and experience.
In moments of stress or boredom,I find myself watching weird videos on social media. That’s not why I installed the app.
The response of politicians to the growing repugnance to social media’s malign influence following the Sydney stabbings is big on rhetoric,but a large gap yawns between their words and actions.
Furious Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones will force social media companies to answer to government after the spread of misinformation had turned a “horrific week into something diabolical”.
Jonathan Haidt says parents are overprotective in the real world and underprotective in the virtual world.
Since the Bondi and western Sydney church stabbings,attention of politicians and analysts has turned to the role of social media in spreading false claims.
“This floor is the one with all the f---ing murderers,” one creator says,laughing.