Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said big tech companies like X Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are making it harder to remove misinformation and child exploitation material from their platforms.
The online safety watchdog issued a warning to Google on Monday official warning X (formerly Twitter Inc.) has been fined A$610,500 (US$386,200) for failing to answer questions about how to detect, remove and prevent child sexual abuse material and grooming.
“If you can build sophisticated artificial intelligence systems and target ads with lethal precision, then you should also be able to target hate speech” or child sexual abuse, Inman Grant said during a panel discussion at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival. Materials do the same thing. Monday in Sydney. “But instead, what we’re seeing is these companies are making things more difficult and making their platforms more opaque.”
In February, the regulator asked X, TikTok, Google, Discord and Twitch what they were doing to combat crimes against children playing on their services.
The regulator said in a statement that Google was warned for providing generic answers to specific questions. X’s violations were “more serious,” the report said. The social media giant left some blanks on questions about detecting and responding to reports of child exploitation material, while providing incomplete and inaccurate answers to others.
“Protecting children on our platform is the most important work we do,” Lucinda Longcroft, director of government affairs and public policy at Google Australia and New Zealand, said in an emailed statement . “We remain committed to these efforts and work constructively and in good faith with the eSafety Commissioner, government and industry to achieve the shared goal of making Australians safer online.”
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Elsewhere, EU regulators also crackdown Tech companies are asked to stop the spread of misinformation about the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Google faces scrutiny recently spreading misinformation The invasion of Ukraine is told to a Russian audience through a popular Android service.Meanwhile, researchers say X posts about recent Hamas attacks in Israel lead to Causing confusion, error messages, and conflicts.
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