(Age) TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact, Australia’s top internet regulator says, as MPs call out the Chinese-owned company for the proliferation of graphic content stemming from the Hamas-Israel war on its platform.
As the US government threatens to ban the app to force it out of Chinese hands, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, announced she had issued legal notices to Google (YouTube), Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit forcing them to explain steps they had taken to remove terrorist and violent extremist material.
TikTok was not among the groups targeted in Inman Grant’s social media enforcement, but Inman Grant said it was newer and regulators had insufficient tools to track its behaviour, flagging a focus on TikTok in her next round of legal notices.
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