One down, most of Europe (and elsewhere) to go . . . In a win for free speech advocates, the Australian Government formally abandoned its misinformation bill over the weekend, after failing to secure support in the Senate. The proposed laws would have forced social media companies to show that they were preventing the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms, with fines of up to 5% of global revenue for non-compliance.​ https://brownstone.org/articles/free-speech-win-down-under-as-misinformation-bill-is-officially-binned/