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Social media companies on notice over extremist threats

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has put social media giants including YouTube, Meta, X and Telegram on notice over the online radicalisation threat.

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Australian eSafety commissioner puts tech companies on notice over reports terror-related content still being shared

Julie Inman Grant has asked companies including Google, Meta and Telegram to explain how they are taking action against violent and extremist material

The Guardian - AU

Search engine rules to ban AI-generated abuse images

New rules for search engines will ban child abuse and terrorist content in Australia but will also seek to prevent abuse images being created by AI tools.

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'Horrifying' explicit AI deepfakes targeting children

The rapid development of generative AI is making online abuse easier for predators targeting children to create explicit deepfake videos and images.

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X slammed for creating 'perfect storm' of online hate

Social media website X has been slammed by the eSafety Commissioner for breeding online hate since being acquired by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.

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Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users

Andy Yen says draft safety standards ‘would force online services … to access, collect and read users’ private conversations’

The Guardian - AU

New standards to tackle online child abuse content

Draft standards for the tech industry will force companies to crack down on child abuse material being shared on sites and be more proactive in prevention.

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Australia to require Google, Bing to clamp down on AI-created child porn

Online safety code requires search engines to take ‘appropriate steps’ to prevent spread of child abuse material.

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eSafety commissioner flags policy on child abuse material after Apple backflip

Tech to scan cloud storage services is operated by Meta, Microsoft and Google, but Apple stopped development last year to focus on warnings for explicit images

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s e-safety regulator warned Twitter about rise in online hate speech during voice debate

FoI request reveals watchdog approached platform – now known as X – to discuss voice to parliament referendum but it did not substantially respond

The Guardian - AU

Online Abuse Towards Indigenous Australians Is On The Rise Ahead Of The Voice Referendum

"Indigenous Australians have been carrying a heavy personal load as this campaign has progressed."

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Australia cracks down on Elon Musk, demands Twitter explain surge in harmful posts—or face fines of nearly $500,000 per day

"Twitter appears to have dropped the ball on tackling hate,” said Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant

Fortune

Afternoon Update: Titan sub oxygen could run out tonight; Australia issues Twitter warning; and ABC ratings tank

The Titan sub could run out of oxygen tonight and Australia issues a warning to Twitter amid rise in online hate

The Guardian - AU

Charlie fell for a sextortion scam on Snapchat — he's now warning others of the pitfalls of online romance

English backpacker Charlie Wade was surprised when a girl he met on Snapchat asked him to send a nude photo. Her next message left him in a state of shock.

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Twitter accused of responding ‘to tyrants quickly’ but ignoring Australian government

Julie Inman Grant tells Senate estimates Twitter’s slowness to tackle online child abuse material is in contrast to its blocking of anti-Erdoğan tweets in the lead-up to the Turkish election

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Reports of 'sextortion' triple in first quarter of 2023, with young men most at risk

Reports of "sextortion" to the eSafety Commissioner triple in the first quarter of 2023, with victims most likely to be young men.

The Guardian - AU

Australian government threatens tougher regulation as eSafety commissioner decries Twitter’s ‘sewer rats’

Australian contacts for dealing with law enforcement issues, such as takedown notices for abuse or bullying have disappeared from the platform

The Guardian - AU

Twitter forced to remove harmful content aimed at Brittany Higgins and partner

eSafety commissioner uses tough new powers against social media giant after complaint from Higgins’s partner David Sharaz

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Don't feed the trolls: Social media self-defence tools

The eSafety Commission has launched a range of resources to help combat online hate directed at Indigenous people in the lead up to the voice referendum.

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UK Big Brother contestant sentenced to 21 months in jail for sharing 'revenge porn' on OnlyFans

The 33-year-old stopped outside Chelmsford Crown Court in Essex to take seflies with fans before his sentencing.

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Meta to help young Australians hunt down their nudes in bid to tackle image-based abuse on Facebook and Instagram

Australian Facebook and Instagram users will have access to a new US-based platform developed to help young people remove sexually explicit content of themselves.

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Twitter, TikTok and Google ordered to explain efforts to crack down on child abuse trade

Five social media companies face daily fines of up to $700,000 if they do not reveal to Australia's eSafety commissioner what they are doing to combat the trade in child exploitation material on their platforms.

AAP

Dating apps being weaponised by criminals

Industry and government are coming together to crack down on serial offenders who harass and abuse women using dating apps.

AAP

Biggest tech companies failing on safety

Bombshell revelations have shown how the world's biggest tech companies are failing to end the sexual exploitation of children on their platforms.

AAP

Australia spearheads online safety push

Harmful, hateful and abusive content on social media will be the target of a new global network of online regulators, led by Australia's eSafety Commission.

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