Public health professionals have welcomed Snapchat's initiatives. The company commissioned a study by Morning Consult, that looked at 13-24 year olds' awareness of fentanyl, and why they were buying prescription pills. Unlike Facebook, which commissioned research into potential harm the platform was causing and kept it secret, Snapchat has been transparent with its research. "These people have been the beneficiary of the product they stand behind, and for them to come out now and say, 'Oh, we didn't know that was a problem with it and we're looking into it - It's insulting."Ī spokesperson for Snapchat did acknowledge there was a problem with illicit drugs sold on the platform and said the company had moved to address it. "This is yet another instance of them treating the people who made them billionaires with contempt. Snapchat on Friday boosted its efforts to root out drug dealers using the app. In some cases, prescription and party drugs have contained counterfeit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's 100 times more potent than heroin. Snapchat, the app in which messages and videos self-destruct, has faced significant pressure to curb the sale of illicit drugs on the platform. "We spend billions of dollars in Australia on mental health issues - Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms make billions of dollars profit from selling a product that I believe in many instances, if it was a food product it would be taken off the shelf." Snapchat takes actionįacebook and Twitter aren't the only social media giants facing scandals and pressure to reform. Mr Joyce added if social media companies were smart enough to make billions, they were smart enough to make their products safer. Mr Joyce said his experience as a parent was part of the motivation to regulate social media companies. " on behalf of every parent, of every mother, of every person who's had to deal with a daughter who's been intimidated, bullied, basically psychologically kicked to pieces by marauding and uncontrolled forces on the internet," he said. Mr Joyce said passion on the subject of social media comes from his experience as a parent and he expressed anger over rumours about his eldest daughter that had spread on social media. "Social media has become a coward's palace where people can go on there, not say who they are, and destroy people's lives," he said. On Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison flagged changes to social media laws in Australia. "It's rare when a prime minister and a deputy prime minister in basically an unscripted way both have the same messages on virtually the same day and so the impetus is there," he said. Mr Joyce said legislation to curtail the power of social media giants would be put on the table "soon." "This time, something's going to happen," You think we're joking, we're not'," Mr Joyce told the ABC's PM program. "The motivation is now there at the federal level in Australia, at the highest level in the United States, in other corners of the globe, to say: 'we've had enough, you can't treat us like fools. In Australia, the government is preparing to regulate social media, according to Mr Joyce. The company has been under scrutiny this week after whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked tens of thousands of documents showing it withheld research into the harms of its products.
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