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Australia’s online safety watchdog said on Monday it had fined X $385,000 for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content.

<div><div><div><p><strong>CANBERRA, Australia (NEWSnet/AP) —</strong> Australia’s online safety watchdog said on Monday it had fined X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — $385,000 for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content.</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p>Australia’s eSafety Commission describes itself as the world’s first government agency dedicated to keeping people safe online.</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p>The commission issued legal transparency notices early this year to X and other platforms questioning what they were doing to tackle a proliferation of child sexual exploitation, sexual extortion and the livestreaming of child sexual abuse.</p></div></div>

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<div><div><p>eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said X and Google had not complied with the notices because both companies had failed to adequately respond to a number of questions.</p></div></div>
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