Elon Musk’s X v Australia’s online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown order

Elon Musk’s X argues the eSafety commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what users can see globally, in reference to tweets of the alleged stabbing of a bishop at a church in Sydney. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Elon Musk’s X is in a fight with the Australian online safety regulator, the courts have got involved and even the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in.

The conflict has descended into a war of words, with Musk calling the eSafety commissioner a “censorship commissar” and Albanese labelling Musk an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law”.