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X, Australian online safety regulator to proceed to discovery stage in penalty case

By Saloni Sinha ( December 4, 2025, 02:20 GMT | Insight) -- Social media platform X Corp. and Australia’s online-safety regulator will move to the general discovery phase before filing further evidence in a civil-penalty case tied to a reporting-notice dispute, a court has ordered. X argued that the eSafety Commissioner should be required to file its evidence first so that the company knows the case it must meet, but the court sided with the regulator.Social media platform X Corp. and Australia’s online-safety regulator will move to the general discovery phase before filing further evidence in a civil-penalty case tied to a reporting-notice dispute, a court has ordered....

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