Australian court upholds order for X to pay fine over child abuse probe

An Australian court upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk’s X to pay a fine of A$610,500 (R7.3m) for failing to cooperate with a regulator’s request for information about anti-child-abuse practices.X had challenged the fine but the federal court of Australia ruled it was obliged to respond to a notice from the eSafety Commissioner, an internet safety regulator, seeking information about steps to address child sexual exploitation material on the platform.South African-born Musk took X, then called Twitter, private in 2022. But the company had argued it was not bound to respond to the…