Australia warned social media giants Tuesday that executives could be jailed if they fail to quickly remove extremist material from their platforms.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with a number of tech firms Tuesday โ including Facebook, Twitter and Google โ to ask how they planned to keep their platforms from being โweaponisedโ by terrorists, as Canberra considers new laws in the wake of the New Zealand massacre.
Social media platforms โcan get an ad to you in half a second,โ Morrison told reporters ahead of the meeting.
โThey should be able to pull down this sort of terrorist material and other types of very dangerous material in the same sort of time frame and apply their great capacities to the real challenges to keep Australians safe,โ he added. Read more