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Twitter, TikTok, Google Face Questions Over Child Abuse Material

Twitter, TikTok, Google Face Questions Over Child Abuse Material — A girl looking at app on a smartphone in a file photo. Peter Byrne/PA

Rebecca Zhu

2/23/2023|Updated: 3/1/2023

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Twitter, TikTok, and Google have been issued legal notices from Australia’s eSafety commissioner requiring them to explain what they are doing to tackle online child sexual abuse.

“The creation, dissemination and viewing of online child sexual abuse inflicts incalculable trauma and ruins lives. It is also illegal,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.

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Rebecca Zhu

Rebecca Zhu

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Rebecca Zhu is based in Sydney. She focuses on Australian national affairs.

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