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Australia gives Twitter 28 days to sort out ‘toxicity and hate’

Twitter has been under fire since Musk took over the platform last October [File: Dado Ruvic/Reuters]

Australia’s internet safety watchdog has given Twitter 28 days to clean up “toxicity and hate” on its platform, threatening to fine the company if it fails to comply.

Twitter has become Australia’s most complained about platform since Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest people and a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, took control of it last year.

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