Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is feuding with billionaire Elon Musk over his refusal to take down footage of the Sydney church stabbing from social media platform X.
The Australian eSafety Commissioner has taken X to court over the violent video content,and as we reported below,the bishop attacked in the Sydney church stabbing has taken Musk’s side and called for the footage to remain online.
The commissioner will also push for fines of up to $782,000 for each day X had not complied.
“This is an egotist,” Albanese said of Musk yesterday.
“He is someone who’s totally out of touch with the values that Australian families have,and this is causing great distress.”
“I think it is causing damage to his own brand of Twitter,which has now become X. He clearly sees this as a vanity project for himself.”
Yesterday,Lambie told Sky News she would be switching off X and suggested the other 226 members of parliament do the same.
“That bloke should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred,showing all this stuff out there to our kids,” she said on Sky News yesterday.
Musk responded to two separate clips of the Tasmanian senator,calling Lambie an “enemy of the people of Australia”.
“This woman has utter contempt for the Australian people,” he said in one post.
“She is an enemy of the people of Australia,” he said in another.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said Musk clearly had no interest in helping the government fix extreme problems.
“This is just a disgraceful act of this company. This and other social media companies are doing absolutely untold damage,creating vast problems in mental health,in spreading terrible attitudes around the world,” she told Seven’sSunrise this morning.