🗳️ As we creep towards #ausvotes 2025, my @qutdmrc colleague @samvilkins and I have taken stock of critical scrutiny options for social media campaigning, and the picture is sobering. We're also calling on Australian politicians to do more to demand social media data access.
https://360info.org/how-digital-giants-let-poll-scrutiny-fall/
Thanks so much to @360info_global for the opportunity to publish this article, which is the second in a series of contributions from the @qutdmrc that set the scene ahead of the #ausvotes 2025 election. The first was this by @antmandan and @markandrejevic, and more are coming:
https://360info.org/dark-ads-challenge-truth-and-our-democracy/
Political inaction and big-tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election. The rise of ‘dark advertising’ — personalised advertisements increasingly powered by artificial intelligence that evade public scrutiny — means Australians face a murky information landscape going into the federal election. It’s already happening […]
Axel Bruns