Sri Lanka, April 23 -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticised social media platform X for its "extraordinary" decision to fight an order by the country's internet watchdog to remove footage of a stabbing during a livestreamed church service.

X, owned by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, announced over the weekend that it would challenge the order to take down content related to the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop during a service in western Sydney.

ESafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said last week that X had been issued notices to remove material depicting "gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail".

"I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue thei...