Australia Drafts Laws to Fine Social Media Firms Over Fake News
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Australia is set to release draft laws Sunday to hold social media companies accountable for failing to remove disinformation and misinformation from their platforms, according to The Age.
Under the proposed legislation, the government would be able to impose a new code on companies that repeatedly fail to combat misinformation and disinformation or an industry-wide “standard” to force digital platforms to remove harmful content, the newspaper reported.