Free-to-air tv networks are elevating considerations in regards to the authorities’s proposed misinformation legal guidelines.
The trade’s peak physique believes the reforms may immediate social media firms to limit TV content material on their platforms.
Free TV is worried the legal guidelines may imply official content material is eliminated when it’s printed on-line.
The laws goals to crack down on disinformation on-line by giving related authorities the facility to difficulty heavy fines.
Free TV mentioned digital service suppliers equivalent to Fb and Google would be the “gatekeepers of content material” on-line for Free TV members if the misinformation legal guidelines stay how they’re.
