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Luke Costin

Video takedown fight with Musk's X lands in court

An Australian court has ordered billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform to block every user from seeing violent footage related to a Sydney church stabbing, not just block it for Australian audiences.

Amid political unity against X Corp's defiant stance to keep potentially harmful content online, the nation's internet cop launched the matter in the Federal Court on Monday evening.

During a hastily arranged hearing, a barrister for the eSafety Commissioner said the "graphic and violent" video remained online on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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