This submission uses insights from research at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and considers questions raised in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Digital platform services inquiry issues paper on general search services. The submission specifically addresses questions around privacy and security risks, the use of generative artificial intelligence in...

This report provides an overview of the Australian Ad Observatory project’s data, infrastructure, and software tools.

This paper presents results from a sub-project established under the banner of the ADM+S Australian Search Experience ‘citizen science’ research project. The aim was to understand what sort of news is presented to Australians through Google News.

This paper is designed to provide background information on the aims and methods of the Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) Australian Ad Observatory research project.

This research debunks speculation that a major state-backed campaign was deployed to influence political discourse in Australia on social media. The research analysed more than 69,000 tweets, from two low-points in Australia-China relations in 2020, and found no evidence the CCP was using bots to shape political conversation on the social media site.