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The Elon Musk’s social media platform refused to remove a video that Axel Rodakobana watched minutes before the killing of three young children, despite many requests from the authorities in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Australian Australian Internet organizer Esafty said on Friday that she noticed a “great sadness” that the video – which shows the violent stabbing of the bishop in Sydney in April – watched the killer on X despite the platform for several months before The attack in Southport last summer.

Immediately after the Australian attack, companies including Google, Microsoft, Snap and Tiktok have quickly cooperated to cooperate with ESAFITER and ensure that Wakeley’s stabbing video is not accessed from its platforms. The organizer said: “X Corp chose not to remove the video from its platform.”

Video footage of the bishop was shared in a church in West Sydney on the Internet in April, but X only a geography on the shots in AustraliaThis means that people elsewhere in the world and local users of VPNS can continue to see the violent attack.

The UK Minister of the Interior, Efit Cooper this week, said that the government was contacting X directly to its request to remove the video from the platform. “Companies should not benefit from hosting content that endangered the lives of children,” she told the House of Commons.

Rhodakobana, 18, was sentenced to at least 52 years in prison on Thursday after confessing to killing three young girls in the Taylor Swift dance in Soutbort.

Tweet Musk has repeatedly and repeatedly following the killings, accusing British Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer from “giving priority to mosques for British girls in dance lessons.” Musk also inflated the tweets by the extreme right -wing instigator Tommy Robinson, who claimed that “Muslims run in the streets undisputed by the police, and attack any non -Muslim.” The interventions led to accusations that he was inflating the tensions that led to riots in all British cities and cities last summer.

On Friday, Musk shared an article on the killings in Southport, saying, “Never forget.”

But he has so far refused to intervene to compel his company to download the video that Rudakubana watched, and the video is still on X as of Friday afternoon.

The Financial Times called X to ask why the video was not removed, but it did not receive any response.

The court listened to the Rodakobana case this week that, in search of the Lenovo tablet, which was found at his home, he showed that he had deleted his entire history, regardless of one search on the day of the attack. Six minutes before leaving to carry out murders, he had searched in X for “Mar Mari Emmanuel Stabbing”.

When the police carried out the same search for X during the investigation, they found that he had led to jobs containing shots of Sydney attack three months ago.

The prosecution also clarified the Rudakubana profiles via the Internet and social media handles in the court, including X. As of Friday, his X -which is protected, so that the followers were not only able to see his posts -.

The Australian organizer sought to take legal measures to try to force X to comply with the ruling to completely remove the video in April, a move that divided the country about whether the government suppresses freedom of expression or was correct to protect users of social media from harmful and violent content.

Musk criticized the decision, accused of “commissar” in an attempt to monitor the Internet.

This sparked an angry reaction from the country’s politicians, including Anthony Albaniz, the Prime Minister, who said it was “sad” that X was fighting the matter to remove the video and criticized the billionaire position.

However, a The court chose to confront the Zarri order On the video that is shown on the basis that X has taken “reasonable steps” to stop the video that is shown in Australia. The case has been considered a possible test case if local regulations can be applied on a global basis.

The Islamic Safety Commissioner dropped his case in June, pending a review of online safety laws in Australia.

Additional reports from Hana Murphy