Senate debates

Monday, 4 September 2023

Questions without Notice

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

2:37 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

The government's Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill does not define the terms 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' in specifics. It would likely be left to biased and foreign influenced fact checkers. Facebook has suspended RMIT FactLab services after accusations of bias in fact-checking the Voice referendum and reports of lapsed accreditation. Minister, will the government abandon its Orwellian misinformation and disinformation bill given that the fact checker's credibility has been destroyed?

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