Australian judge bans X from sharing video of bishop being stabbed in church

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressed a vigil over stabbing victims in Sydney (AP)

Rod McGuirk

An Australian judge has ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia.

X, the tech company rebranded by billionaire Elon Musk when he bought Twitter last year, announced last week it would fight in court Australian orders to take down posts relating to a knife attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in an Assyrian Orthodox church as a service was being streamed online on April 15.