What influences Australian culture?

Just days out from the United States presidential election last month, X (formerly Twitter) suddenly crippled the ability of many major media and political organisations to reach audiences on the social media platform.

Australian lawmakers on Thursday approved a landmark ban on social media for children under 16 in some of the world’s toughest such controls.

When you opened this story, in all likelihood you used Google Chrome to do it. The ubiquitous internet browser, owned by US tech giant Alphabet, is the preferred platform for an estimated 65 per cent of the world’s web users – both on the computers or smartphones.