eSafety issues legal notice to Twitter over online hate handling
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has used legal powers to demand information from Twitter about what the company is doing to tackle online hate on the social media platform.
The government body, led by Julie Inman Grant, said it has received more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past 12 months than any other platform, with more reports of serious online abuse since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company last year.
Like Elon Musk gives a crap about a sub $20 million dollar market threatening to fine it $750k a day if it doesn’t comply.
And if anything, his blue tick subscription model that prioritises and de-anonymises users by associating them with a credit card, means that hate speech will go down, and likely has.
An increase in complaints =/= increase in hate speech.
Just means an increase in complaints from a far-left audience, on a platform with right leaning ownership.
See ya Twitter.