TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact.
TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact, Australia’s top internet regulator says, as MPs call out the Chinese-owned company for the proliferation of graphic content stemming from the Hamas-Israel war on its platform.
“Any form of terrorist and violent extremist material is either designed to divide and cause fear or spread propaganda,” she said. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that Labor had no plans to move beyond existing rules stopping government officials from using TikTok on phones with sensitive information.
“ is sort of behind the rest of the companies,” Inman Grant said, noting that other members of the group may be uncomfortable co-operating with a Chinese-owned firm. “But they are in a class of themselves because they’re not part of these broader groups.”
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