Limits of social media laws highlighted by Musk’s mockery

Billionaire Elon Musk’s mockery of demands to remove video of a Sydney stabbing showed how tech giants may be beyond the reach of Australia’s laws, experts say, even as Labor and the Coalition pledged tougher action.

Both sides of politics slammed Mr Musk’s likening of eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant to a Communist enforcer at the weekend, warning that social media giant X and other platforms could not operate outside the law, allowing inflammatory content to spread freely.