Submission to the 2025 Review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation
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This submission proposes a reconceptualisation of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation. We argue that the current approach conflates two distinct types of harm requiring different policy responses: individual harm from exposure to dangerous content, ...
See moreThis submission proposes a reconceptualisation of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation. We argue that the current approach conflates two distinct types of harm requiring different policy responses: individual harm from exposure to dangerous content, and collective harm from systemic degradation of information quality across the digital ecosystem. We propose that platforms should be held accountable for preventing individual harm through content moderation, while contributing to ecosystem-wide monitoring of information disorder through a novel persona-based measurement system that protects epistemic rights.
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See moreThis submission proposes a reconceptualisation of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation. We argue that the current approach conflates two distinct types of harm requiring different policy responses: individual harm from exposure to dangerous content, and collective harm from systemic degradation of information quality across the digital ecosystem. We propose that platforms should be held accountable for preventing individual harm through content moderation, while contributing to ecosystem-wide monitoring of information disorder through a novel persona-based measurement system that protects epistemic rights.
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2025Publisher
University of SydneyLicence
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Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesThe University of Sydney Business School
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Centre for AI, Trust and GovernanceShare