Australian Senate committee recommends further bans on Chinese social media apps
An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation.[PDF] that outlines the reason the committee convened: social media has become the public square in which policy debate tales place, but “is increasingly being weaponised to spread disinformation to deliberately mislead or obscure the truth for malicious or deceptive purposes.
The requirements would include operating an Australian presence, proactively labelling state affiliated medial, and disclosing any government directions they receive about content . TikTok was also lashed, with a finding that it “ engaged in a determined effort to obfuscate and avoid answering the most basic questions about the platform, its parent company ByteDance and its relationship to the Chinese Communist Party.”
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