Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will move for YouTube\u2019s seven-day ban on Sky News to be investigated by the Committee.
\nSenator Hanson-Young said she will be requesting that representatives from Sky News, YouTube\/Google and ACMA be called to give evidence on the ban and why the broadcasting regulator has failed to take any action.
\n\u201cThe obvious question is if the spread of misinformation isn\u2019t allowed on the internet why is it on television broadcasts?
\n\u201cThere are questions for both the government regulator and the companies involved, and the Media Inquiry should investigate.
\n\u201cMany people are asking why it takes a tech company to hold Murdoch\u2019s News Corp’s dissemination of Covid misinformation and conspiracy-theories to account. Where is the public media regulator in all this?
\n\u201cGoogle-owned YouTube has taken action to uphold its policies around medical misinformation on its platform and that is welcome.\u00a0Governments around the world have been putting pressure on the social media giants to act responsibly in relation to COVID misinformation.
\n\u201cBut we aren\u2019t talking about just any YouTube account, Sky News is a commercial broadcaster and so the very obvious question is how can they get away with it on television? Sky News broadcasts on both a subscription service and also free-to-air in many regional areas – this puts the news channel clearly in ACMA’s remit.
\n\u201cACMA appears to be sitting on its hands while a tech giant upholds standards the government regulator doesn\u2019t seem to have.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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