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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Thinktank warns Australian misinformation laws should not be based on voluntary industry code

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Reset Australia has found that social media companies are often failing to comply with the existing voluntary industry code. Photograph: Михаил Руденко/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The Australian government’s laws to force tech companies to act on misinformation should not be based on the current voluntary industry code as planned, because those standards are not being met, a technology thinktank has said.

“We were testing the efficacy of these systems,” the executive director of Reset Australia, Alice Dawkins, said. “And where there had been a commitment or a statement made in the code we tested the results against what platforms said that they did.

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