The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with technology journalist and disinformation analyst Ariel Bogle from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre.
We talk about many things, including Dan Andrew’s supposedly fake back injury, COVID-19 disinformation, cold showers, far-right political video activists, imaginary bullfighting, content moderation, YouTube banning Sky News Australia, and of course the cybers and the lack of reporting thereof.
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I'm an analyst with ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre, where I research online disinformation campaigns. Most recently, I was a technology reporter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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Journalist and analyst at @ASPI_ICPC doing research on disinformation, propaganda etc. Previously with @abcnews, @ConversationEDU, @FutureTenseNow and others.
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03. Melbourne protest: Multiple people arrested, fined over anti-lockdown rally | Sky News AustraliaMore than 30 people have been arrested or fined after clashing with police at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Thursday night.
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Police have condemned the alleged "dog act" of kicking an officer on the ground at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne after 15 people were arrested overnight. Victoria Police said action has been taken against 31 people in total who protested against Victoria's sixth lockdown, with charges expected to be laid later today.
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A senior police officer says Victorians frustrated by lockdown should be wary of being manipulated into joining protests organised by "hardcore" groups seeking to stoke violence with police.
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The divisions and tensions inside national cabinet mirror the political forces that are gaining strength within the anti-lockdown movement.
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Far-right politics in Australia, that is Australian political movements and individuals aligning to the far right, also referred to as right-wing extremism, is largely a phenomenon of the 20th and 21st centuries. Many of the groups included in this article are hate groups rather than registered political parties, some of the groups have had links to far-right terrorism in Australia, and some individuals have criminal convictions.
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Questions implying a “cover up” over Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’s injury without evidence are not “grassy knoll conspiracies” but a sign of a healthy democracy, says Dan Tehan.
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Mainstream validation of the conspiratorial thinking about the Victorian premier undermines public trust, even if it serves a political purpose
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During a May 4 keynote presentation at a virtual conference hosted by the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, Kate Starbird, a University of Washington Center for an Informed Public cofounder and Human Centered Design & Engineering associate professor, discussed “the notion of participatory disinformation that connects the behaviors of political elites, media figures, grassroots activists, and online audiences to the violence at the Capitol,” as Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press wrote in a May 13 analysis of Starbird’s research. But what exactly is participatory disinformation, how does it work and what does it look like?
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Two families, two posts...and two stories of how seemingly benign shares on social media can turn bad.
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kathrin's friends have been sending her a range of wild theories – many of them linking 5G technology to the novel coronavirus.
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When Jade was 21, she decided to get fit. So she turned to the internet, and the hordes of fit and thin young women on YouTube demonstrating DIY diets and work out techniques.
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Alvin Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists.
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The first wartime cyber attack against electricity grids was in 1999, says one of Australia's leading cyber strategists, but 20 years later we're still not ready to face 'multi-vector' cyber attacks.
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The newly deleted videos include hosts and MP Craig Kelly discussing unproven treatment hydroxychloroquine
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A damaging lie has “spread around the world” following YouTube’s “suspicious censorship” of Sky News Australia, according to Andrew Bolt. “Naturally, news outlets of the left are just cock-a-hoop that we’re blocked from posting on our hugely successful YouTube channel,” he said.
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Over 10 years ago, I uploaded a 50 second video to YouTube of a dippy bird drinking water. The only audio is me saying "DO IT.... YESSS!" I just got an email saying my channel has been age restricted because the video was reviewed and it breaks Community guidelines?!?
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This is the entire video CONTENT WARNING: this video contains a toy bird drinking water and has been deemed to be suitable for an 18+ audience only by Youtube
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I too got an age restriction email from YouTube this week on a really old video concerning police tackling someone in Bondi (for a news story).
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The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensible part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution. It operates as a freedom from government restraint, rather than a right conferred directly on individuals.
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A young Australian far-right troll was known to his online fans as 'Catboy Kami'. Thousands followed his 'edgy' videos where he targeted children online with a mix of racial stereotypes and hardcore shock tactics. With that fame and notoriety, he's become a useful recruitment tool in the expansion of one of the globe's most extreme social movements.
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In Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Cynthia Miller-Idriss explores the places where the far right recruit young people in communities across the US and around the world. From university campuses and Mixed Martial Arts gyms to clothing stores, online forums and YouTube lifestyle channels, the book examines the physical and virtual spaces in which hate is cultivated and young people are mobilised to join violent hate groups. Katherine Williams recommends this accessible and important work to readers who want to broaden their understandings of the intersections between place, space and far-right mobilisation.
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I’ve been re-reading the pieces I wrote when I returned from Thailand, each labelled “Unreliable Bangkok”.
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[By @ApostrophePong] I was not meant to document Stilgherrian’s first journey outside Australia but while looking through the Thailand trip archives, it was interesting enough to publish pictures of him in different back drops new to him.
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