(AAP) Australia is to become the first country in the world to introduce jail terms and multimillion-dollar fines for social media giants that do not quickly remove violent material.
In what is expected to be the final week of parliament before the federal election, the government will seek to put two new sets of offences in the criminal code.
It will be a criminal offence for social media platforms not to remove abhorrent violent material quickly.
The speed of the removal would be determined by a jury.
This would be punishable by three years in jail for Australian or overseas executives or fines that can reach up to 10 per cent of the platform’s global annual turnover.
