The Australian government will grant its media regulator new powers to tackle “online misinformation and disinformation.”
The Australian Communications and Media Authority announced last week that the federal government is set to legislate to give it more powers to allow it to “hold digital platforms to account” if they don’t tackle “harmful” online “misinformation and disinformation.”
Currently, a voluntary digital code exists, created by the Digital Industry Group Inc, whose members include Meta, Google, TikTok, Apple and Twitter. However, the ACMA will be empowered to create a new industry code that applies not just to DIGI signatories, “should… self-regulation measures prove […]
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