The Australian PM was incensed after Musk’s X ignored a court order to remove videos of a stabbing attack in Sydney.

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.

An Australian court on Wednesday extended an injunction ordering the social media platform X to remove videos depicting the recent stabbing of a bishop, setting the country’s judicial system up for a clash with the company’s owner,

Elon Musk’s X has argued that a video of a bishop being stabbed in Australia is “part of the public discussion”, as it prepares to fight a legal challenge over a decision to ban the clip.

Australia’s officials have taken a contentious stance, targeting Elon Musk, owner of Twitter/X, for resisting what he perceives as global content censorship on social media. The issue stemmed from posts concerning the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emanuel in Sydney,