Social media platforms from Twitter to Facebook are under growing pressure from lawmakers across the world to explain their roles in amplifying extremism, polarisation and hate speech. — Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash
Twitter Inc executives sparred with a panel of Australian lawmakers investigating harmful material online and the social media platform’s measures to stem abuse.
In a virtual hearing Friday, Lucy Wicks, chair of the Australian parliament’s Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety, read out some of the abuse directed by Twitter users toward a prominent local female journalist. Wicks, a Liberal Party lawmaker, questioned how Twitter policed offensive material when so much of it remained on the platform.
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