Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian Australia ...

Three years after Musk declared removing child exploitation on X 'priority #1', eSafety says CSEM is more accessible on his ...

The Australian eSafety Commissioner was handed AU$21 million in the 2021-22 Budget earlier this month, with the funding to be spread across software, more staff, and continuing its work on ...

Parents have been told to report accounts missed in Australia’s under-16 social media ban – but eSafety is ‘concerned’ some platforms aren’t complying ...

Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is set to receive sweeping new powers in early 2022 as part of the Online Safety Act that passed Parliament last month. Among other things, the new ...

ESafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has urged schools to report deepfake incidents to authorities to stem the proliferation of ‘nudify’ apps online. Her advice follows Meta’s commitment to tackle ...

In short: The eSafety commissioner won a two-day injunction requiring social media platform X to hide from all users certain content relating to the Wakeley stabbing. X had hidden the content from ...

The encrypted messaging service, alongside Meta, WhatsApp, Google, Reddit, and X, was alerted in March 2024 of requirements to answer questions about online safety expectations. These included ...

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant was last week accused of misleading Australians after her crusade to have children banned from YouTube was not supported in her own research. Now it can be ...

The online safety regulator says it has no Australian staff at Twitter that it can contact to take down child exploitation material, after mass firings by Twitter's CEO Elon Musk shut down the team.

The Australian government's attempts to police online speech have descended into farce after its 'world's first' eSafety Commissioner admitted it was effectively powerless to stop people re-sharing ...