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Antisocial Media

A child looks at a phone. From the phone, many red lines connect many different social media logos, and graphic imagery like guns, porn and targets. This leads to a line of yellow police tape.

In May the premiers of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia said they wanted to explore regulations to limit social media access and online time for young people, to help protect them from harmful content. Megan Herbert’s clever use of an ‘evidence board’ reminds us that the roots of misogynist violence can lie in the seedy back alleys and unlit cul-de-sacs of the internet, especially when navigated by young, impressionable minds.