Employees were reduced worldwide after billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter last October, which has reduced content pruning.
Australia’s regulatory authority threatens to fine social service Twitter if it doesn’t clean up its platform from “toxicity and hate”.
Internet regulatory authority By Julie Inman Grant according to Twitter is involved in one in three hate speech complaints in Australia. This is reported by the news agency AFP.
Inman Grant says Twitter has 28 days to fix the problem or face hefty fines. After the deadline, Twitter will be fined around half a million US dollars every day.
According to Inman Grant, Twitter must present clear plans to prevent hate speech and enforce the rules.
Billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter last October for US$44 billion. Shortly after the deals, the company’s employees were reduced worldwide, which has contributed to a reduction in content pruning.
Musk’s actions at the company’s management have also attracted criticism from time to time.
In addition to hate speech, misinformation on Twitter has increased after Musk’s deals, say organizations monitoring the situation, and Twitter hasn’t shown that they consider it a problem.
Last December, Twitter closed the accounts of journalists who had written critically about the platform and Musk.
Inman Grant himself has worked at Twitter earlier in his career.
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