Thinktank warns Australian misinformation laws should not be based on voluntary industry code

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Experts find ‘significant gaps between statement and practice’ of social media firms’ enforcement of standards

should not be based on the current voluntary industry code as planned, because those standards are not being met, a technology thinktank has said.

Researchers found 17 factchecked articles. But out of 152 posts making the false claims identified in the factcheck, only 8% were labelled four weeks after being reported to Meta. Reset also reported that X had failed to remove any content identified as misinformation about the voting process for the voice referendum, while Facebook took action against 4% of content identified.In one example, a TikTok video claiming the referendum was unconstitutional was removed from the platform, while another near-identical video stayed online.

 

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