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X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘Twitter ceased to exist’

X has lost a legal fight in Australia in which the company tried to avoid a $400,000 fine by claiming that Twitter no longer exists.

The commission had asked the company, then known as Twitter, to provide details about its handling of child sexual exploitation on the platform last February. She repeated the line multiple times earlier this year while testifying at a Senate hearing on child safety issues. Australia federal Judge Michael Wheelahan, however, found the claim unconvincing, saying that X’s argument required “leaps in logic that were not supported by adequate explanation.” X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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