Australia to levy hefty penalties on social media over violent posts

A sign at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California Source: AAP
It is now an offence in Australia for companies, such as Facebook Inc and Alphabet's Google, which owns YouTube, not to remove any videos or photographs that show murder, torture or rape without delay.
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