Meta, Google, TikTok, Amazon and Twitter have signed the “Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms,” a code of practice that obligates the companies to reduce harmful content on their platforms and services in the country. (The Logic)

Talking point: Critics of the initiative say self-regulation is toothless compared to government regulation, pointing out that NZTech, a tech firm lobby group, is responsible for ensuring Big Tech’s compliance with the code. Meanwhile, the Canadian government convened an expert panel to advise it on its impending online harms legislation—though these experts have struggled to define the term “online harms” and disagreed on how to curb them.