British Columbia's Attorney General says she's "deeply disturbed" that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet.

Niki Sharma says the social media firm is challenging a "clear order" from B.C.'s Civil Resolution Tribunal to remove an image from its platform for violating the province's Intimate Images Protection Act .

The tribunal ordered X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, to remove the image after a transgender complainant from B.C. — whose name is anonymized in court documents — applied for a protection order under the law earlier this year.

The company says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month that it "promptly complied" with the tribunal's order by blocking access to the off

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