Elon Musk's rebranded Twitter has been fined $610,000 by Australian authorities for failing …

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Grant, has found X (formerly Twitter) guilty of serious non-compliance to a transparency notice on child sex abuse material. The commissioner has issued X with an infringement notice for A$610,500. The commissioner first issued transparency notices to Google, X (then Twitter), Twitch, TikTok and Discord in February under the Online Safety Act 2021. Under this legislation, the commissioner has powers to require online service providers to report on how they are mitigating unlawful or harmful content. The commissioner determined Google and X did not sufficiently comply with the notices given to them. Google was warned for providing overly generic responses to specific questions, while X’s non-compliance was found to be more serious. For several key questions, X’s response was blank, incomplete or inaccurate. For example, X did not adequately disclose: the time it takes to respond to reports of child sexual exploitation material the measures in place to detect child sexual exploitation material in live streams the tools and technologies used to detect this material the teams and resources used to ensure safety. How severe is the issue? In June, the Stanford Internet Observatory released a crucial report on child sex abuse material. It was the
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