Elon Musk’s X has not paid a fine imposed for failing to outline its plans to stamp out content depicting child sexual abuse on the platform, Australia’s internet safety watchdog told AFP on Tuesday.

Last month, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant slapped an Aus$610,500 (US$388,000) fine on the company formerly known as Twitter for failing to respond to questions she sent in February, criticising the company’s “empty talk” on the issue.

X was given until the end of October to pay the fine, request an extension or ask for the fine to be withdrawn. The company had requested an extension which expired last Friday.

“Twitter/X has not paid the infringement notice within the allotted timeframe and eSafety is now considering further steps,” a spokesperson for Inman Grant told AFP.

X did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Inman Grant — herself a former Twitter employee — last month urged X to show it was taking “tangible action” to clean up the platform.

“Twitter/X has stated publicly that tackling child sexual exploitation is the number one priority for the company, but it can’t just be empty talk,” she said at the time.

Billionaire Musk has slashed more than 80 percent of X’s global workforce since his takeover, including many of the content moderators who are responsible for stamping out abusive content.

Proactive detection of child sexual exploitation on X fell from 90 percent to 75 percent in the three months after the takeover, Inman Grant said.

Australia has spearheaded the global drive to regulate social media platforms and it is not the first time Inman Grant has singled out X or Musk.

In June this year, she raised concerns about a spike in more general “toxicity and hate” following Musk’s takeover in October last year.

The dramatic incident of a small plane colliding with a car during an emergency landing has been recorded on video. On Monday, November 13,  the pilot who flew from Midland was trying to make an emergency landing at Aero County Airport but was unable to stop the plane at the end of the runway. 

The plane went through a fence and onto eastbound Virginia Parkway, where it collided with a passing car. 

See the video here:

One car careened straight into the equally careening plane just outside Aero County Airport, in McKinney, Texas pic.twitter.com/H0cTLlIDMl

— RT (@RT_com) November 14, 2023

McKinney Fire Department Paramedics evaluated three patients at the scene, two from the plane and one from the car. Just one person was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, reported The Independent. 

According to the WFAA report, Jack Schneider witnessed the entire incident and captured it on his phone. “I saw the airplane coming down the runway quickly I knew that he wasn’t gonna have time to stop. It was clearly going too fast, the tires were smoking… So I quickly pulled out my phone because I could tell something was about to happen,” said Mr Schneider.

The Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) is investigating the cause of the crash.

Earlier, two airplanes had a terrifying near miss after almost colliding with each other in the stormy skies above Portland International Airport. The close call came when an Alaska Airlines flight tried landing on a runway next to where a SkyWest plane was taking off, The Independent reported. A YouTube video by the channel VASAAviation caught the terrifying moment and shared a visual simulation of the Alaska flight heading towards the SkyWest plane over the Portland airport during a storm. 

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday approved the creation of 10 more Family Courts in the capital, raising the number of such Courts in the city to 31, according to a press release by the LG office.

“The approval affects the creation of posts of 10 Judges to head these Courts and also 71 other posts that include Reader, Steno/ Sr. PA, Steno/ PA, Assistant Ahlmad, Naib Nazir, Orderly and Staff Car Driver,” said the official statement.

The approval comes following a recommendation of the full Court way back in 2019 for the creation of at least 10 more Family Courts in view of the pendency of cases for more than 5-10 years.

About 46,000 cases are pending in Family Courts in Delhi, the lowest being 1321 pending with Principal Judge, Family Court, Saket and the highest being 3654 pending with Family Court, Rohini, the press release said.

According to Family Court, Dwarka, there are about 150-200 on average being registered with Family Courts on a daily basis and approximately 80% of staff in these Courts is working on diverted capacity from various other Departments.

Recently, LG Saxena approved the creation of 10 additional posts of IT cadre in order to strengthen IT-enabled services in the Delhi Prison Department.

These 10 additional posts will include one post of Senior System Analyst, one post of System Analyst and eight posts of Data Processing Assistants (Assistant Programmer), according to the official statement.

The official release further mentioned that the total financial implication for the creation of 10 posts is estimated to be around Rs 1.02 crore annually.

The press note by the LG office also informed that the IT Department, Administrative Reforms Department and the Finance Department have concurred with the creation of above mentioned 10 additional posts.