Australia has fined X Australia over child sex abuse material concerns. How severe is the issue – and what happens now?

  • Written by: Marten Risius, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland
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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Grant, has found X (formerly Twitter) guilty of serious non-compliance to a transparency notice on child sex abuse material. The commissioner has issued X with an infringement notice for A$610,500.

The commissioner first issued transparency notices to Google, X (then Twitter), Twitch,...

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