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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

eSafety commissioner ends heated fight with Elon Musk’s X over Sydney church stabbing posts

X owner Elon Musk and Australia's eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant
X owner Elon Musk has previously been critical of the Australian government and eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant over what he claimed were bids to censor users on the platform. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

The Australian online safety regulator has effectively abandoned its legal fight with X over the removal of videos of April’s Wakeley church stabbing attack, after agreeing with the social media firm to end a judicial review of its orders.

In April, the eSafety commissioner ordered X to hide 65 posts of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel while he was giving a livestreamed service at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley.

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