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Australia’s prime minister calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’

April 23, 2024 at 11:42 a.m. EDT
Elon Musk in Germany in 2020. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lashed out at tech mogul Elon Musk on Tuesday, labeling him an “arrogant billionaire” over an ongoing dispute about whether videos from a church stabbing in Sydney should be shown on Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly Twitter.

Albanese in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said his country would “do what’s necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire, who thinks he’s above the law but also above common decency.”