Trump administration to confront Australia over Labor’s social media algorithm plan
by Luca Ittimani from Technology | The Guardian on (#788X7)
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The Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take down harmful content and let users opt out of algorithm-generated for you" feeds.
Big tech companies would be fined more than $100m for breaching the proposed laws and the Australian government is under pressure to raise those fines even further.
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