This chapter delves into the efforts of the e-safety commissioner in regulating violent messaging and misinformation online, emphasizing the need for tech companies to balance encryption and law enforcement access. It also discusses upcoming government plans for a mandatory code to address misinformation on platforms and highlights the challenges posed by the spread of violent material and misinformation online.
Anthony Albanese has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church. Reporter Josh Taylor tells Jane Lee how this stoush started, and if it’s possible to stop the spread of violent material and misinformation online You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport