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Australia drops legal fight against X over church stabbing videos

Social media platform X had been embroiled in a legal battle with Australia's online watchdog [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]

Australia’s internet watchdog has ended a legal battle to force Elon Musk’s X to remove a graphic video of a church stabbing in Sydney.

The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman, said on Wednesday that she had decided to drop the case to “achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children”.

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