Australia’s Commissioner for Internet Safety, Julie Inman Grant, said social media users were subjected to the most hate speech on Twitter. According to him, a third of the complaints received regarding hate speech can be linked to Twitter. He added that this is a scary number because Twitter users are much lower than other popular social media platforms – TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
“It appears that Twitter has not taken action to combat hate,” said Inman Grant. he added:
We’re also aware that Twitter has reinvigorated accounts it had previously banned for hate speech. This in turn has emboldened many extremist groups, including neo-Nazis, who are the primary promoters of hate.
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Twitter has 28 days to respond to moderation or otherwise
You can expect a fine of up to $700,000 AUD (approximately 160 million HUF) per day.
Musk bought the company last year and has vowed to protect free speech on the platform. the BBC I contacted Twitter, but the company did not comment on the matter.
Twitter’s head of trust and security recently resigned
As we wrote, Twitter’s Head of Trust and Security, Ella Irwin, resigned from her position at the beginning of June. According to the assumptions, Elon Musk’s previous statement may have had something to do with his resignation. The primary task of a trust and security manager is to moderate content, i.e. limit violent expressions. And this is a rather touchy subject since Elon Musk leads the company.
On June 1, the day before Irwin’s resignation, Musk publicly criticized the decision to moderate content on Twitter: the company is limited What is a woman The film is about transgender people, because they believe that the video discriminates against its characters, as in two cases where they were treated with false pronouns.
Musk has publicly commented on the ban on the video. He said his men made a mistake.
Whether or not you agree to use preferred pronouns, not doing so is at best impolite and certainly not against the law
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Twitter may be banned in the European Union this summer
Almost before Irwin’s resignation, the social media platform withdrew from the European Commission’s code of practice to combat disinformation. In response, the European Union may ban the social media platform Twitter from August 25 if its management does not comply with European requirements on combating disinformation.
After Musk bought Twitter, he laid off about 75 percent of the staff, including the teams tasked with tracking abuse, and completely overhauled the company’s auditing process.
