PM Albenese of Australia Takes Issue with X’s Refusal to Follow Through on the Removal of Bishop Stabbing Posts

PM Albanese of Australia issued a warning, stating that X’s insistence on keeping up posts concerning the stabbing of a Sydney bishop could exacerbate already tense circumstances.

The prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has blasted social networking company X for defying a cyber regulator’s request to take down specific posts about a stabbing that happened in Sydney.

Albanese described the action as “extraordinary” at a Monday press conference.

A 16-year-old was accused of terrorism on Monday in relation to the assault on Mar Mari Emmanuel, the bishop of the Assyrian church.

Online videos showed the attacker being cuffed by the crowd as they yelled at the bishop for supposedly disparaging Islam.

Albanese criticized the spread of violent imagery and emphasized that some social media posts merely contributed to heighten the suffering endured by a large number of people.

“I think it’s remarkable that X is attempting to make their case while choosing to not cooperate. This relates to the hazardous consequences that might arise when untrue statements are weaponized and repeated in an effort to sow discord. Albanese remarked

He emphasized that spreading unfavorable remarks in these circumstances could exacerbate already tense circumstances.

The eSafety Commissioner, an Australian regulatory watchdog, ordered X to take down certain posts that “publicly commented” on the attack. X, on the other hand, disagreed with this order, claiming that the posts did not violate company policies against violent speech.

Furthermore, X asserted that the regulator lacked the right to control the content that its users could access worldwide and threatened to challenge this strategy in court on the grounds that it was “unlawful and dangerous.”

Elon Musk, the businessman who paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter in 2022 and renamed it as X, criticized the state of affairs and brought attention to the issue of worldwide content prohibitions.

In a post, he declared, “The Australian censorship commissar is demanding global content bans!”

Several lawmakers have criticized social media platforms for their refusal to stop spreading false information.

The commission stated a year ago that after Musk lifted limitations on over 62,000 accounts, X has emerged as Australia’s main forum for hate speech online.