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Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones has accused social media giants of being “more determined to remove journalists from their platform than criminals”. Speaking to ABC RN, he said:
For platforms like Meta to be more determined to take journalists off their platform than they are criminals means they’ve got a real moral problem at the epicentre of that company, and it can’t continue.
For parts of industry, not all of it, to say ‘don’t worry, just leave it to us and we’ll put in place voluntary codes’, give me a break.
They’ve had forever to put in place mechanisms that would work and, as I’ve said, [because they are] more determined to remove journalists from their platform than criminals I think we know where the priorities lie, and it’s not in protecting the users of Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and places like this…
