Peter Dutton says the government must crack down on social media giants after Elon Musk’s X claimed the online safety regulator was attempting to censor posts about a stabbing in Sydney. Follow updates here.
The Coalition is willing to back the Albanese government’s draft misinformation laws, provided they strike the right balance between protecting freedom of speech and limiting the proliferation of harmful content online, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has said. The Albanese government is preparing its second attempt at draft misinformation laws after strong pushback against its first proposal last year.
So there are many aspects here that we need to deal with,” he said. Asked whether the stabbing events in Sydney last week had prompted the Coalition to change its position on Labor’s misinformation bill, Dutton said the opposition continued to believe, as it did last year, that the bill needed to better balance the protection of free speech and restriction of harmful content. “We don’t want to impinge on your ability to express a view in a democracy.
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