“Where authoritarian regimes rely on secrecy and deception to advance their national interests on social media, Australia should rely on openness and transparency to secure our own,” said Mr Paterson, the Opposition home affairs spokesman. “That’s why the committee has recommended a range of enforceable transparency standards to both expose the clandestine conduct of authoritarian regimes online, and to empower and protect the freedoms of Australian social media users, recognising that not all social media platforms are the same.” The committee also recommended that if the US government follows through with its threat to force Chinese technology giant ByteDance to…