Back in November, Reset.Tech complained to Digital Industry Group Inc (aka DIGI) that "fact-checked falsehoods were not always being labeled despite claims in its transparency report and provided 152 examples of where Meta had failed to label a piece of content". DIGI is supposed to be the mob responsible for administering the voluntary Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation, but it also a lobby group that pushes the interests of big tech companies like Meta, Apple and Google. It dismissed Reset.Tech's complaint this week, saying "Reset Australia produced no convincing evidence that Meta's transparency report contained false statements". Self-regulation doesn't work in other industries and doesn't work here either.
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