Simon Birmingham calls on social media platforms to ‘remove’ violent content

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has called on social media companies to use their “immense technological power” to “remove” violent content from their platforms. Billionaire Elon Musk has mocked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s social media crackdown hours after his platform was again ordered to remove graphic content. “I think there’s a pretty clear message for social media companies, and that there’s one law in Australia, everybody should comply with the law in Australia and the law has been built on the basis of Australian values and Australian standards,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia. “We don’t want our children or other Australians exposed to dangerous, violent online content, and we do expect social media platforms to be able to use their immense technological power … to be able to remove such content. “They definitely have the capabilities and power to remove this stuff and to do so much faster and more comprehensively than they chose to do so at present.”