'Law unto themselves': the Australian battle to curb Facebook and Twitter's power

The suspension of Donald Trump's accounts sparked outrage among conservatives but the prevailing mood is for greater regulation

Nationals MP Anne Webster and Labor MP Sharon Claydon are less concerned with why Donald Trump was taken off social media, and more concerned with what platforms such as Facebook are doing to stop online defamation and abuse.

Webster and Claydon are the co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Making Social Media Safe, a group to highlight the environment of social media and the risks associated" and to make the platforms more accountable. It now boasts more than 50 members thanks partly to Twitter and Facebook's response to last week's attack on the US Capitol.