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“The content of the messages does not encourage or provoke violence,” the X account said.
The statement from the company formerly known as Twitter, which the billionaire bought in 2022, clashes with claims by Australian lawmakers that police feared the footage would be used to encourage people to join terrorist groups.
The e-Safety Commissioner ordered X to remove posts containing the video worldwide to prevent Australians from seeing it, but A court this week temporarily upheld the removal order until a hearing on May 10.
The order has sparked increasingly heated public debate between Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, and Australian officials, including the prime minister and a senator who Musk said should be jailed.
Overnight, Musk shared a series of posts from another user describing the takedown order as part of a “plot by the World Economic Forum to impose eSafety rules on the world.” “Precise thread,” Musk wrote to his 181 million followers.
The e-Safety Commissioner was not immediately available for comment.
The dispute follows an April 15 attack on an Assyrian bishop in Sydney, for which authorities say a 16-year-old boy has been charged with terrorist offenses.
Following raids linked to the incident this week, police charged five youth associates, including teenagers, with terrorist offenses including possession of extremist material.
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