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Opinion | The social distortion brought about by platforms like Facebook cannot be captured in a film as conventional as The Social Reckoning.

Aaron Sorkin's new Facebook film fails to nail the bizarre world Zuckerberg created Properly showing how social media has warped our reality clearly remains out of reach, and any happy ending is fundamentally dishonest.

Podcast | Does hosting a data centre locally give Australia any real power? Or is it just more "sovereignty-washing" from the government? This week's episode of Cut Through is out now.

Answering your questions on Australia's data centre moment What are data centres? Does Australia even need them? And why is the political elite so enamoured with Anthropic and OpenAI?

Opinion | The people responsible for real abuses benefit when their critics become careless enough to dismiss easily, writes Sami Shah.

Flydubai, false flags and a trap for Palestinian solidarity Once we decide every opponent is artificial and every inconvenient event staged, evidence loses the ability to interrupt our narrative of the world.

As Canberra tries to thread the needle on AI, it's becoming gradually more enmeshed with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, writes Ben Eltham. What are the risks?

Canberra is 'drinking the Kool-Aid' on AI. Where will it take us? The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?

The rumour mill is wondering if Peter Malinauskas may have eyes on The Lodge. But as "Teflon Pete" faces a slew of controversies, don't hold your breath, writes Jo Dyer.

Malinauskas as prime minister? Not if his litany of controversies are anything to go by Speculation is afoot about whether the South Australian premier could have his eyes on The Lodge. But with his "Teflon Pete" image waning, don't hold your breath.

Three years after he left office, former premier Dan Andrews still attracts violent hatred. It's worth remembering how that played out in 2022.

A One Nation candidate wants to lock up Dan Andrews. It's part of a bizarre ongoing obsession with the former premier Three years after he left office and nearly five years after the end of the Victoria's long COVID lockdown, the former premier still attracts violent hatred.

“Too much of the gallery, in my view, is addicted to drops,” Rob Harris, national affairs editor at the Nine papers, tells Crikey.

‘Addicted to drops’: Insiders spill on why Australian media is silent on One Nation’s press ban Crikey speaks to top Australian political journalists, executives and The New Yorker's Susan Glasser about politicians' assault on the free press — and the lack of collective resistance against it.

Opinion | Acclaimed scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin returns to Facebook in The Social Reckoning, but capturing the general sense of 2020s social distortion proves beyond him.

Aaron Sorkin's new Facebook film fails to nail the bizarre world Zuckerberg created Properly showing how social media has warped our reality clearly remains out of reach, and any happy ending is fundamentally dishonest.

It turns out "socialism" means whatever JD Vance needs it to mean.

The Snoop: Daily Mail's mistaken identities, the pope's Aussie legal bust-up, and more Plus: Looks like Christopher Pyne is a man on a missile.