Peter Dutton has sensationally named the "morally bankrupt" socially media bosses he believes are not doing enough to address the sexual abuse of children.
The home affairs minister called out the chief executives of Facebook and Apple during a keynote address to a global summit on tackling child exploitation.
"Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and other tech CEOs have made billions of dollars, but these CEOs are morally bankrupt on the issue of encryption and protecting children," Mr Dutton said in Ethiopia overnight.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Source: AAP
"These companies have the ability to shift the dial, but instead behave like the tobacco companies of the 1960s. They know with certainty their actions are causing harm and they pretend it isn't happening."
Mr Dutton's incendiary spray is the latest escalation in his long-running war against social media giants for refusing repeated calls to give police access to encrypted messages.
