The real reason for the Misinformation Bill from the horse's mouth

Thu, 2025-08-14 11:30 by James Sinnamon

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Neil Mitchell: I'll give you the perfect world, OK? You've got no caucus to answer to. You've got no federal Labor Party conference. You've got no elections. You've got no opinion polls. You are dictator for five years. [laughter from Anthony Albanese] What do you do? What's your first act?

Anthony Albanese: The big frustrating thing, if I could do something. Maybe, ban social media. Would be handy, because ...

Neil Mitchell: Why? What's the problem with social media?

Anthony Albanese: Look, I think a couple of things. One is is keyboard warriors who can, anonymously, say anything at all and, without any fear, the sort of things that they would never say to you face-to-face, they can just assert as fact.

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