Musk’s lawyers to fight X take-down orders on two fronts

Nick Bonyhady, Tess Bennett and Tom McIlroy

Apr 23, 2024 – 5.51pm

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Elon Musk’s lawyers are set to fight the eSafety commissioner’s global take-down orders of the Sydney church stabbing footage on two fronts, arguing the agency made a bureaucratic bungle and massively overreached.

In a hearing on Monday evening, lawyers for Mr Musk’s social site X flagged they could go to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to challenge the initial order requiring the videos to be removed. And Mr Musk posted on Tuesday saying that Monday’s court ruling, which applies globally, went too far.

Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age.

Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter.

Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent.