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Exclusive: Despite the immediate horrors, women have largely led recovery efforts where government has failed, researchers sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWomen were subjected to violence and sexual assaults resulting in pregnancies in the immediate aftermath of the northern rivers floods due to a lack of triaging and separation...

BBC host talks about cutting screen time and how some of the press are ‘obsessed with trying to do me’, in Guardian interview‘The levels of attack are extraordinary’: Gary Lineker on punditry, podcasts – and why he won’t stop speaking his mindGary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural...

With a fraud investigation into Chiara Ferragni under way, she and fellow social media stars are under sharp scrutinyChiara Ferragni amassed a fortune through incessant selfie-taking as part of a marketing strategy that included imparting pearls of wisdom to her millions of online followers on how to be “effortlessly cool”.But now the influencer – one of Italy’s most powerful – is struggling to maintain...

Students’ union calls for sanctions over posts on social network that have also contained homophobic abuseThe French Union of Jewish Students has called for sanctions against people who have written antisemitic and homophobic comments about France’s new prime minister, Gabriel Attal, on the social network X.Attal, 34, who was appointed by the president, Emmanuel Macron, this week, is France’s youngest prime minister and also...

Figures show rise in incidents of online extremism and violent content, partly fuelled by Israel-Gaza conflictMore than 1,000 violent and extremist posts have been taken down from social media at the federal government’s request since 7 October following an increase in referrals brought on in part by the conflict between Israel and Hamas.It follows a warning by the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, in the...

A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for everIn June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit’s moderators rebelled...

‘Frog seller’ trend sparks debate on intellectual property amid concerns over copyright infringementAn anthropomorphised frog has joined celebrity live-streamers and social media commentators among China’s ranks of influencers, as a trend that began with street sellers in Chinese cities takes on a new life online – and raised questions over who, if anyone, owns the intellectual property rights to a dancing amphibian.Alternatively known as...