Who’s responsible for quieting trolls on social media?
What if Facebook, Twitter and Youtube had to delete the posts of online trolls?
This could soon be a reality, with the European Commission releasing a plan for removing racist comments and what it calls ‘hate speech’ within 24 hours on some of the world’s biggest social media platforms.
Will this plan really quieten the internet trolls and stop racism online?
We were joined by Dr Fiona Martin, Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media at the University of Sydney to find out more.