Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has taken aim at X – formerly known as Twitter – saying Australians are at a higher risk of online hate since Elon Musk took over.

Cyber safety expert and former police officer Susan McLean says online safety is a “huge issue”.

“And for any school, anywhere in the world for that matter, it is often the number one non-academic issue that a school has to deal with on any given day,” she told Sky News Australia.

“We need to hold social media platforms to account – if they’re not doing well enough, we need to call them out.

“But we also, on the other hand, need to acknowledge and support them when they make good choices.”