WeChat has only hours left to respond to an Australian government inquiry after it refused to front a parliamentary inquiry earlier this month.
Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, Senator James Paterson, said that he has sent WeChat detailed series of questions after it failed to appear to give evidence.
“WeChat and its parent company Tencent demonstrated contempt for the Parliament of Australia through its refusal to appear before the Committee last week, but has now ‘committed to providing responsive information to the Committee in writing.’ I intend to hold them to that commitment,” Senator Paterson said in a media release on July 17….