Regulator wants social media platforms to hand over information about efforts to stamp out terrorism
An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to social media platforms from YouTube, X and Facebook to Telegram and Reddit, demanding they hand over information about their efforts to stamp out terrorism content.
Since 2022, the regulator has had the power to demand big tech firms give information about the prevalence of illegal content and their measures to prevent that content from spreading. Failure to do so can result in hefty fines.The Dubai-based messaging service, which a 2022 OECD report ranked at No. 1 for frequency of terrorism content, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
“We’re not going to be afraid to take it as far as we need to, to get the answers we need or to find them out of compliance and fine them,” she added. Subjects considered terrorism ranged from responses to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to violent conspiracy theories to “misogynistic tropes that spill over into real-world violence against women”, she added.
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