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Big Tech allows extreme violent content to reach children's feeds: Australian watchdog

( October 7, 2025, 02:14 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The proliferation of online extreme violent material has prompted Australia’s online-safety watchdog to release an online-safety advisory, with advice on how young people can avoid so-called gore content. The guidance, titled "Gore online: How violent content is reaching children and what you can do," reveals 22 percent of Australian children aged between 10 and 17 have seen extreme real-life violence online. In a statement accompanying the advisory, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said major platforms had failed to deploy filters “quickly or consistently” to stop extreme violent videos from reaching the feeds of children.The advisory can be found here; the full statement follows:...

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