The Tesla billionaire uses posts on his social media platform to attack Anthony Albanese and the eSafety commissionerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastElon Musk has hit back at the Australian internet watchdog’s attempts to force his social media platform X into blocking users from seeing violent footage relating to the Sydney church stabbing.On Monday evening the Australian federal court ordered Elon...
Elon Musk has countered Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's criticism by stating he does not believe he is above the law, amid tensions over X's handling of a video showing violence in Sydney. read more
Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, and said the ruling meant any country could control "the entire internet." At a hearing overnight, Australia's Federal Court ordered
Elon Musk's X is experiencing issues with users reporting problems with the app. Issues are also plaguing the website, news feed and posts. X is back online following a more than one hour outage
"Not About Freedom Of Expression": Aussie Politicians Unite Against Elon Musk's X Authored by Monica O'Shea via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk’s X is facing strong criticism from both the centre-left Labor Party and the centre-right Liberal-National Coalition in Australia amid a legal challenge against the country’s online content tsar. Mr. Musk labelled Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant (a former Twitter employee), the “Australian censorship commissar,” after she...
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to...
Mediaite spoke with four journalists about what caused them to limit their use of Twitter and what their social media use looks like now.
In July of last year, Meta launched a Twitter competitor called Threads. The platform's similarity with Twitter sparked constant comparisons between the two social media platforms. While many assumed Meta's offering would lag far behind the rebranded X (formerly Twitter), new data indicate this may not be true.However, it is worth noting that third-party app data providers lack access to the entire data stream from the apps themselves. In other words, their numbers, while informative, may only...
Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as part of public discussion , rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X's global government affairs account said the video taken by an innocent bystander should not have been banned under Australian law, which permits content that can be reasonably considered as part of public discussion or...
Elon Musk is in a row with the Australian government after its online safety regulator called for a video of an Assyrian bishop being stabbed at a Sydney church to be removed from X, his social media platform. The video shows Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being stabbed during a church service that was being livestreamed on April 15. The nonfatal attack, which authorities said was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, led to rioting outside the church. Australia’s eSafety...
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Brazilian supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro are praising Elon Musk's free speech ideals.