Imagine Australia, a sunburnt country, finding itself in a bind not just because of its reliance on fossil fuels, but because of a cunning, invisible war being waged right under

Imagine a grand stage, brightly lit, where some of the biggest names in the digital world are called upon to share their stories. Not stories of triumph and innovation, but stories of responsibility and vigilance. This is the essence of what’s happening with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and its Code of Conduct on Disinformation. For the first time, these digital giants – think Google, Meta, Microsoft, and TikTok, alongside a host of fact-checkers and civil society groups – have submitted reports detailing their efforts to combat the insidious spread of false information online. It’s like the first…