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Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, last week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy, or to end it. Zuckerberg announced several changes to Meta’s moderation approach, including replacing third-party fact-checkers with a user-driven Community Notes model.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration withheld information on DNA contamination risks from the public, presenting a picture of certainty where there is none.

Australia’s drug regulator has repeatedly stated that residual synthetic DNA in mRNA vaccines poses no risk, despite credible concerns for long-term health consequences, including the risk of cancer and genomic integration.

In a blistering repudiation, the Supreme Court Justice said that the conduct of AHPRA and the Medical Board regarding Dr William Bay had been "less than profoundly unsatisfactory”.

The new Moderna factory opened in Victoria this week with the promise of pumping out up to 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year, amid rising vaccine hesitancy and unresolved safety concerns.

Australians will not have to present a Digital ID or other form of government ID to use social media under new laws setting the minimum age of social media access to 16.

Australia is the first country to set the minimum age of social media access to 16, after a landmark bill passed in the Senate late into the evening on the final sitting day of the year.

Two Australian local governments have joined a grassroots campaign calling for state and federal officials to take precautionary action over Covid vaccine safety concerns.

Despite stiff pushback from legal experts and the public, the misinformation bill passed in the House of Representatives on 7 November. It now goes to the Senate, where Labor, with the possible support of the Greens, needs to shore up the votes of enough crossbench senators to pass it into law.

Online, people can be obsessive, hyper-partisan, haranguing total strangers without thinking twice. In the streets, people are largely going about their business, dealing with the day as it comes – election results and all.

In a report handed down yesterday, Australia’s federal Covid Inquiry found that extreme public health restrictions, coupled with lack of transparency about the evidence informing these decisions, has led to a major slide in public trust.

Councillor Blanco, who formerly served as Port Hedland Mayor, said that although healthcare is not normally within the remit of local government, he considered the evidence presented to be “a real and undeniable threat to public health.”

The new laws would lower the legal threshold for prosecuting people for vilification and would add gender identity, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability to the list of protected attributes alongside race and religion, which are already protected.

Two-thirds of submissions made to the Australian Senate’s Excess Mortality Inquiry have been suppressed and key evidence omitted from its concluding report, calling the Inquiry’s integrity and findings into question.

The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme ends today, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of these vaccines without a safety net.

First, those in charge of adjudicating what is and is not misinformation are sometimes wrong, resulting in the censorship of true information. Second, there are harms associated with the suppression of true information.

The first independent testing of Australian vials of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines confirms findings from the US, Canada and Germany, highlighting that oncogenic and genomic integration risks are a global concern.

The Australian Government is set to impose social media age limits, amid increasing concern over the effect of social media on youth mental health, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last week.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tabled a new version of the bill which she said is intended to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy.”

The Australian Government has voted down a bill to establish a Covid Commission of Inquiry, which would have essentially the same powers and independence as a Royal Commission.