WA Police Facing Criticism for Slow Racist Comment Deletion

0:00It's April 15th. Welcome in. This is Sydney News Today, where local news meets AI, on Cori with the story. Racist comments are flooding Western Australia, police social media posts, and they're not getting deleted fast enough. Indigenous folks are calling out the hate left hanging there for days, like on a recent post that stayed up four days until media pressure hit. Police are sticking to their guns, saying they won't shut down comments as standard practice because it cuts their reach and engagement. They rely on auto filters and some manual checks to zap the bad stuff, but they're telling users to report it straight to platforms like meta. Indigenous leaders and lawyers are fired up, arguing this set up normalizes discrimination and could even make police liable for the content. One expert says it marginalizes communities, pushing stereotypes that aboriginal people are criminals right into homes. It clashes with WA government guidelines that demand moderating ugly, hateful talk and other states like New South Wales in Queensland, lot comments, quicker when things turn toxic.

1:02Research shows unmoderated racism on official pages looks like endorsement. This keeps highlighting the need for real Indigenous input in policing social media, especially after recent attacks barking national inquiries into hate against first nation's people.