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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

‘Serious breach’: social media platform X booted from Australia’s misinformation code

Mobile phone with X logo on screen
X, formerly known as Twitter, has been suspended from the Australian Digital Industry Group’s voluntary misinformation code. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

X [formerly know as Twitter] has been kicked out of Australia’s voluntary misinformation and disinformation code, after failing to respond to a complaint about shutting down channels for users to report misinformation, during the voice to parliament referendum.

The industry association, the Digital Industry Group (Digi), announced on Monday that its disinformation and misinformation independent complaints subcommittee found X had “committed a serious breach of the code and has refused to cooperate with Digi”.

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