Michelle Rowland announces joint select committee to probe big tech. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMeta was correct to remove two Facebook posts allegedly misrepresenting the Australian Electoral Commission’s statements about voting multiple times in the voice to parliament referendum, the company’s independent oversight board has found.
The oversight board, which independently reviews cases selected to examine Meta’s content moderation policy, examined posts by two different Facebook users showing screenshots of information shared by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on X ahead of the voice to parliament referendum in October.The AEC had posted advice that: “If someone votes at two different polling places within their electorate, and places their formal vote in the ballot box at each polling place, their vote is counted.”The board finds that both posts violated the Coordinating Harms and Promoting Crime rule that prohibits content “advocating, providing instructions for, or demonstrating explicit intent to illegally participate in a voting or census process.I’m under no illusion that we have a responsibility to make sure that Australians have electricity, that they have power that they have affordable power. But also what are the levers the government has and how do we use them to ensure that the transition to low-emissions future is happening as quickly as possible? And that is my focus, and that is what I believe the Labour party needs to focus on as well.I also have a young family and a young daughter and I want her to know that. In my time in politics, I did everything I could to try and set up Australia and be a part of the generation that takes climate change and the climate emergency extremely seriously. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/10/federal-budget-high-court-immigration-detainees-anthony-albanese-labor-peter-dutton-coalition
Author : Jordyn Beazley
Publish date : 2024-05-09 21:31:36
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