There is something almost theatrical about the way Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, and specifically the protection of children online, the defining cause of his premiership. Last September, he stood in a room overlooking the East River in New York, hosting an event at the UN General Assembly where grieving parents told their harrowing stories of children lost to relentless online bullying. The audience was a grab-bag of dignitaries and sympathetic leaders from Greece, Fiji, Tonga, and Malta, nodding along as the Australian Prime Minister laid out his vision to ban social media for the under-16s. It was political…

AI, Misinformation and Media Trust: How to Protect Brand Reputation Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and seeing a video of a well-known brand’s CEO saying something outrageous. You feel betrayed. You share it in anger. Later, you find out it was a deepfake—a piece of artificial intelligence manipulated so convincingly that millions of people believed it. By then, the damage was done: the video had gone viral, the stock had dipped, and trust had been cracked. This scenario is no longer science fiction. In an age where AI can create realistic images, voices, and entire events out of…