An Australian court has ruled that tycoon Elon Musk’s social network X is liable in Australia for Islamophobic content published on the platformtwo years after he was exposed by a Muslim rights organization.

A ruling handed down this week by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Brisbane and published on its website indicates that the case “sufficient jurisdiction” over the specified “foreign company”.

The conclusion is confirmed by the fact that “has a significant presence in Queensland” thanks to the subscribers and services it offers in this state in north-eastern Australia.

This decision represents a triumph Muslim Rights Network (AMAN), which reported X, formerly known as Twitter, to the Queensland Human Rights Commission in June 2022 for Islamophobic messages published on the platform.

AMAN assures that this content violates Queensland Anti-Discrimination Actwhich prohibits any defamation related to, among other things, race, religion, sexual orientation and disability, although Musk’s platform states that It was not subject to the law because it was a company, not a person.

These discriminatory messages include 29 materials coming from “far right anti-Muslim conspiracy blog” US citizen whose materials are commented on, copied or distributed through

“Incitement to hatred is governed by clear rules, not because of corporate discretion” This was stated today by an AMAN representative in a statement sent to EFEin which he celebrates a legal victory that the network calls “unprecedented.”

“This is the first legal victory over a social network in accordance with the Anti-Discrimination Act (Queensland), which will have implications for all networks operating in Australia,” the statement said.

AMAN, who redoubled his fight against Islamophobia following the 2019 supremacist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 51 people dead, highlighted in a statement what he had witnessed in recent months “hateful denial of documented atrocities against Palestinians and mockery of Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip.”

He also recalled that X, who has not yet commented on the decision, You have the opportunity to appeal the court decision, so the legal battle is not over yet.