Australia’s online safety watchdog has ordered social media platforms to take down posts showing the brutal stabbing murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in the United States, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the beheading of a Dallas motel owner.

Removal notices for multiple posts sharing the videos were sent to Elon Musk’s X and Facebook and Instagram owner Meta, with threats of fines of $825,000 per day for each offending post.

These videos should never have been allowed on social media in the first place. It is one thing to report on news, it is another thing to show graphic content. It is not only inappropriate, it shows the lack of sensitivity towards the family members of the deceased.

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