There are significant gaps in Australia’s regulatory framework when it comes to electoral
misinformation and disinformation served through paid-for advertising. This creates notable
vulnerabilities in Australia’s online information architecture, such as the growing problem of
threats to electoral integrity.
This small research piece demonstrates issues with platform responses to electoral
misinformation served through paid-for advertising and weaknesses in platform transparency
reports to the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation (the Code).
We put forward a range of paid-for ads containing explicit electoral misinformation for
approval to run on Facebook, TikTok and X(Twitter).
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