eSafety commissioner says there is new violent extremist content coming online that tech giants such as Google and Meta may not be identifying quickly.eSafety commissioner says there is new violent extremist content coming online that tech giants such as Google and Meta may not be identifying quickly.Australia’s online safety regulator has issued notices to Telegram, Google, Meta, Reddit and X asking how they are taking action against terror material on their platforms.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Under the legal notices issued this week, Inman Grant used her powers under the Online Safety Act to ask the companies a set of questions about their systems and processes to identify the content and prevent people being exposed to it, noting each company would have differences.“It varies tremendously within each of these companies,” she said. “YouTube is so widely viewed by so many, including a lot of young people, from the radicalisation perspective.
The regulator is now involved in an ongoing lawsuit with the Elon Musk-owned X platform after the company failed to pay an infringement notice related to a similar notice issued last year about how the company was responding to child abuse material on its platform.. Inman Grant said her office had been in communication with X about the planned terrorism-related notices before they were issued.