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View all search resultsAustralia gives Twitter 28 days to clean up ‘toxicity, hateʼ
Platform responsible for one in three complaints, says watchdog.
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ustralia’s internet safety watchdog on Thursday threatened to fine Twitter for failing to tackle online abuse, saying Elon Musk’s takeover had coincided with a spike in “toxicity and hate”.
E-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, a former Twitter employee, said the platform was now responsible for one in three complaints about online hate speech reported in Australia.
Inman Grant said Twitter had 28 days to show it was serious about tackling the problem or face fines of A$700,000 (US$475,000) for every day it missed the deadline.
She said Twitter must come back with a series of concrete steps showing “what it is doing to prevent online hate on its platform and enforce its own rules”.
“We need accountability from these platforms and action to protect their users,” she said, AFP reports.
“And you cannot have accountability without transparency, and that’s what legal notices like this one are designed to achieve.”
The demand comes as Australia approaches a referendum this year on whether to recognize indigenous people in the constitution, prompting an increasingly intense debate about race.
