Australia considers a range of measures that would make social media companies more responsible for defamatory material published on their platforms
Logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen in London on December 18, 2020.
"We expect a stronger position from the platforms," Fletcher said in an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "For a long time, they've been getting away with not taking any responsibility in relation to content published on their sites." Fletcher said the government was looking at that option and the extent of the responsibility in general of platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook when defamatory material was published on their sites."A whole range" of measures
"We will look at that. We'll go through a careful, methodical process," he said. "In a whole range of ways, we are cracking down on this idea that what is posted online can be posted with impunity."