SYDNEY: Australia's internet safety watchdog on Thursday (Jun 22) 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 res
SYDNEY: Australia'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".
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"."And you cannot have accountability without transparency, and that's what legal notices like this one are designed to achieve.", he has slashed more than 80 per cent of the global workforce, including many of the content moderators responsible for stamping out abuse.
She said the watchdog was"far from being alone in its concern about increasing levels of toxicity and hate on Twitter, particularly targeting marginalised communities". She wrote to Musk in November, expressing fears that deep staff cuts would leave the company unable to meet Australian laws.
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