Australia plans tough laws for social media sites that don't take down violent content

Jail terms and hefty fines will be proposed, which could be the first legislation of its kind in the world

Australia is to become the first country in the world to introduce jail terms and multi-million-dollar fines for social media giants that do not quickly remove violent material.

In what is expected to be the final week of parliament before the federal election, the government will seek to put two new sets of offences in the criminal code.

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