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Submission: on foreign interference through social media pursuant to Terms of Reference of 24 November 2022

The Hub has made a joint submission, with the Society on Social Implications of Technology and Deakin University Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (‘CSRI’) on foreign interference through social media pursuant to Terms of Reference of 24 November 2022. 

The main points of this submission focus on the need to link this inquiry to other reform initiatives; the need to clarify the democratic values underlying disinformation regulation, particularly truth and free speech and the relationship between them; clarification of Australia’s public position on how international law governs foreign interference activities by cyber means, particularly on how international law on sovereignty applies in this context; the need to manage the complexity of laws applicable to disinformation and bodies responsible for enforcing these laws; and the importance of enabling courts and civil society to participate in disinformation detection and action.

A pdf copy of the submission is here

Further background information on the submission is here