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Hate speech doesn’t belong in misinformation laws: TikTok

Nick Bonyhady

Social video site TikTok has urged the government to exclude hate speech from its planned crackdown on online misinformation but the Australian Strategic Policy Institute wants the rules to go further.

The federal government released a draft law in June to give the Australian Communications and Media Authority power to enforce misinformation standards on sites such as Facebook and TikTok via industry codes.

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Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com

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