The eSafety Commissioner's office confirms that Twitter has no Australian staff that the regulator can contact to report child exploitation on the social media giant's site, something the office says is critical to keeping children safe online.
The online safety regulator says it has no Australian staff at Twitter that it can contact to take down child exploitation material, after mass firings by Twitter's CEO Elon Musk shut down the team.The online safety regulator says it has no direct line to report child abuse material on Twitter
"We share your concerns about the stripping out of Twitter's capacity to respond to child sexual exploitation, in particular. There are no Australian staff left here," the office's acting chief operating officer Toby Dagg said. Following his takeover of the company, Mr Musk declared ridding the site of child abuse material "Priority #1".
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