Musk’s Twitter Threatened With $700,000 Daily Fine Unless It Tackles ‘Hate Speech’

Musk’s Twitter Threatened With $700,000 Daily Fine Unless It Tackles ‘Hate Speech’
Elon Musk's photo through a Twitter logo on Oct. 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Daniel Y. Teng
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Australia’s eSafety commissioner has issued Elon Musk’s Twitter with a legal notice to explain what it is doing to tackle hate speech on its platform.

The commissioner says it has received “more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past 12 months” than any other platform and alleges an “increasing number” of reports of serious online abuse since Musk took over in October 2022.

Daniel Y. Teng
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