A social media boss has said it would be "tyrannical overreach" to remove a video of a "horrific" stabbing of a bishop at a church in western Sydney which was watched by Axel Rudakubana on the morning of a stabbing attack in the English town of Southport.

Rudakubana, then aged 17, searched social media site X for a video of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel six minutes before he left home on July 29 last year.

The teenager murdered Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; Bebe King, six; and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; and attempted to kill 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

X's head of global government affairs Deanna Romina Khananisho told the Southport Inquiry on Tuesday she was "passionate" about a "free speech mission".

Nicholas Moss KC, counsel to the inquiry, asked whe

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