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X banned an Australian outlet without publishing a reason. The regulatory machinery around that decision has moved further, and faster, than most people noticed.

Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.

Australian creators and brand managers feeling good about their YouTube view counts should look at a different number. The figure that pays the bills has been heading the wrong way all year.

Disclosure has stopped being an advertiser's choice. Google now stamps an AI label on ad images and video automatically when they come from its own creative tools, and the badge follows the ad wherever it runs.

Google's Scalable Cluster Termination System terminated 50,000 coordinated channel clusters comprising 130,000 channels of synthetic spam generators over a six-month period.

Australia's online safety regulator is investigating Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube for potential breaches of the world's strictest social media age ban. A survey of 900 parents found 70% of under-16s who had accounts before the December ban still have access.

A California jury awarded $6 million to a plaintiff who argued that Instagram and YouTube's design features caused mental health harm, opening social media companies to a new category of product liability claims.