Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has joined a bipartisan push for stronger misinformation laws for social media companies following stabbing attacks.
Tougher penalties forcing social media companies to remove misinformation from their platforms need to be rolled out to set a benchmark for the rest of the world, the opposition leader says. Peter Dutton has backed efforts calling for harsher sanctions to combat misinformation online, after false theories and graphic content were posted to platforms following a stabbing at a Sydney church on Monday and the Bondi Junction attack.
" It comes as social media platform X vowed to fight orders from Australia's online safety watchdog to remove posts about the church stabbing . "While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content X's users can see globally," the platform's global government affairs account posted on Saturday.
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