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Australian authorities have locked horns with Elon Musk over a demand to remove content globally from the X platform.

The company has lost $170 billion in market capitalization.

MPs have voted in favour of proscribing an online terror network, the first time an online group has received the designation in the UK.

The Disinformation Governance Board was disbanded in 2022 after public concern over its ‘potential for censorship.’

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director general Mike Burgess and Australian Federal Police Commissioner also raised concerns about social media.

AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw warned that fake images generated by AI were making it more difficult for authorities to tackle child sex abuse.

‘Nothing can justify the Australian government censoring the entire global Internet of content it does not like.’

His evidence comes as Australian authorities attempt to force Elon Musk’s X to remove all videos of the stabbing incident from the platform.

Australian law enforcement have stepped up moves to counteract online extremism after two stabbing incidents in Sydney.

Australian authorities have targeted Musk for not complying with an order to remove content across its platform globally related to a terror incident.

Australian authorities are pushing X to remove content globally related to a terrorist incident in Sydney.

Australian authorities are pushing Musk to remove content from its platform from all global users.

Australian authorities have targeted Musk for not complying with an order to remove content across its platform globally.

The Australian online content regulator blocked the content to Australian audiences but wanted X to extend the move globally.

The head of Britain’s National Crime Agency has joined more than 30 European police chiefs in calling for end-to-end encryption to be halted.

‘We are noticing a dramatic increase in global censorship,’ Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski said.

With fines and take-down notices piling up, and the social media giant vowing to test their validity in court, X says free speech trumps all.

Supermarket chain Foodstuffs NZ said the trial came after 4,719 incidences of retail crime were recorded in its stores nationwide in the last quarter of 2023.