Christchurch mosque shooting: Morrison calls for crackdown on social media
If social media giants can build algorithms to sell ads, Scott Morrison says they can find ways to stop terrorists spreading horrifically violent videos.
The prime minister wants G20 nations to consider practical ways to force companies like Facebook and Google to stop broadcasting atrocities and violent crimes.
NSW man Brenton Tarrant has been charged with murder following the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch which killed 50 people and left another 50 injured.
The attack was live-streamed on Facebook.
"These social media companies have built this technology. They've created these capabilities," Mr Morrison told reporters in Adelaide.
"If you can write an algorithm to make sure that the ads they want you to see can appear on your mobile phone, then I'm quite confident they can write an algorithm to screen out hate content on these social media platforms."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten agreed.
"I do not believe it is beyond the technological capacity of some of the richest, largest, most powerful, cleverest, most sophisticated businesses in the world, not to be able to better monitor the material before they publish it," he told reporters in Western Australia.
Mr Morrison argued the global community needs to ensure tech companies meet their moral obligation to serve communities they profit from.
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