Article 6BXGR Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly says Facebook must act against ‘tidal wave’ of racist trolls

Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly says Facebook must act against ‘tidal wave’ of racist trolls

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Australian Associated Press and Josh Butler
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Indigenous body says it has blocked about 300 people in the past week who used racist slurs

Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly has called on Facebook to act against the tidal wave" of racist online trolls that it says have targeted its work.

But Facebook's parent company Meta has defended its record of addressing online abuse, saying it was a problem all tech companies needed to confront.

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