FoI request reveals watchdog approached platform now known as X to discuss voice to parliament referendum but it did not substantially respond
Australia’s online safety regulator warned Twitter of a likely increase in online hate targetingin the lead-up to the voice to parliament referendum but the platform did not substantially respond to its concerns, a freedom of information request reveals.
The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, sent a legal notice to X in June demanding an explanation over what she said was an increase in complaints since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company in October last year. She said there had been more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past year than any other platform.
The email was then followed up two weeks later with a list of the identified types of hate speech, including racial slurs, hate terms and derogatory language used to target Indigenous Australians – the list was excluded from release under freedom of information exceptions on the grounds it would reveal eSafety’s methods for detecting people evading or breaching the Online Safety Act.
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