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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: X Fined In Australia Over Child Safety Transparency Failures
Caption: X Fined In Australia Over Child Safety Transparency Failures. X Corp has been fined in Australia after admitting it failed to comply with child safety transparency laws. The company, owned by Elon Musk, was ordered to pay A$650,000 plus A$100,000 in legal costs. Australia’s eSafety regulator first issued the penalty in 2023 after requesting information about how the platform tackled child sexual exploitation content online. X argued it did not need to comply because the request had originally been sent to Twitter before the company merged into X Corp. Justice Michael Wheelahan increased the original fine, saying the penalty needed to act as “a real deterrent”. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said “meaningful transparency is critical to holding technology companies to account.” Australia’s regulator has repeatedly clashed with X over online safety issues, including the country’s ban on social media for under-16s. The latest ruling ends a three-year legal battle between X Corp and Australia’s online safety watchdog. Instructions: THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
Keywords: Current Affairs & Politics,X,Elon Musk,X Corp,Australia,child safety laws,eSafety,Julie Inman Grant,Twitter,social media,online safety,regulation,technology,legal battle,child protection
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