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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Banned by AI bots: fresh call for social media referee

Users blocked from their social media accounts can face a "hall of mirrors" trying to regain access. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians need a social media referee to reinstate accounts unfairly shut down by artificial intelligence bots, a regulator warns following hundreds of complaints. 

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman joined the call for a powerful online adjudicator on Tuesday after revelations hundreds of consumers and businesses had been locked out of their accounts with little redress.

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