Published on
21/05/2026 - 7:06 GMT+2
An Australian judge fined X Corp., the company Elon Musk set up which holds social media platform X, 650,000 Australian dollars (€398,500) on Thursday for failing to provide information to an online safety watchdog in 2023 about how it tackled child sexual exploitation content.
Federal Court Justice Michael Wheelahan also ordered the Texas-based social media giant to pay AU$100,000 €61,326) of e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant’s court costs within 45 days.
The ruling ends a three-year legal battle in which X had argued it was not obliged to answer e-Safety’s questions.
