During the peak of global controversy in April over demands to remove tweets showing the stabbing of a Wakeley bishop, the Australian online safety regulator asked Elon Musk’s X to delete a tweet of the video posted by an Australian senator, Guardian Australia can reveal.
The office of the eSafety commissioner ordered X to remove tweets posting the video of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at his church in April, prompting a global furore over the role of online safety regulators and whether it amounted to censorship – including from Musk himself.
