It took 20 yrs to start regulating social media – will AI controls come sooner?
His government was the first to implement a ban on social media for young people. It has just passed legislation forcing Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn to strike deals with local publishers or face a levy. And it's now on to a 'digital duty of care' bill that proposes forcing social platforms to take more responsibility for the harms they cause.All of Australia's actions have been fiercely criticised by the tech companies.
- ▪His government was the first to implement a ban on social media for young people.
- ▪It has just passed legislation forcing Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn to strike deals with local publishers or face a levy.
- ▪And it's now on to a 'digital duty of care' bill that proposes forcing social platforms to take more responsibility for the harms they cause.All of Australia's actions have been fiercely criticised by the tech companies.
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| Original publisher | RNZ |
| Canonical URL | https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/1557652/it-took-20-years-to-start-regulating-social-media-will-ai-controls-come-sooner |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:54:04 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T07:05:13.621Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T07:05:13.621Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | SOv7CDOnp1LL · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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NewsBusiness24 September 2026, 5:18pmIt took 20 years to start regulating social media - will AI controls come sooner?John HarteveltCaption:OpenAI's Sam Altman was told by Australian PM Anthony Albanese his firm disclosed a hack on the nation's Medicare portal far too latePhoto credit:Kylie Cooper/Reuters/File via CNN NewsourceAnalysis: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's decision to reveal a three-month old hack of his country's Medicare portal by OpenAI was a calculated political flex.Albanese is under pressure at home, sagging in the polls, and struggling with a series of gaffes and policy U-turns.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at RNZ.