Brazil has fired Elon Musk’s X.
Friday Brazilian Topcoat Ordered Musk’s social media company X (formerly Twitter) should be banned in the country.
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The move comes after Musk clashed with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had previously ordered X to remove content spreading fake news and misinformation. Musk and the company responded to the judge’s demands with a “Censorship Order“
Musk himself recently attacked the X judge, calling Moraes “Evil Dictator“
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Earlier this month, X closure The company is suing its Brazilian operations, alleging that a judge threatened X’s head, Rachel Nova Conceição, with arrest if she did not comply with orders to remove content.
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Although X has withdrawn from Brazil, its platform remains available to users in the country. On Wednesday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X to appoint a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours. X failed to comply and was subsequently suspended. Share It issued a statement Thursday night anticipating a possible ban.
“We expect that Judge Alexandre de Moraes will soon order the closure of X in Brazil, simply for refusing to comply with his unlawful orders to censor his political opponents,” the statement read.
Losing its user base in Brazil would likely be a blow to X, as the platform is popular in the country and Brazilian users accounting X has a monthly active user base in the tens of millions.
As The New York Times ReportsMany of the accounts Judge Moraes ordered taken down belonged to supporters of Brazil’s former right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, and some of the accounts ordered taken down had questioned the results of Brazil’s 2022 election, which Bolsonaro lost.
Brazil requires tech companies to have legal representation in the country in order to operate in the country, and so far the country has banned platforms such as: telegram In 2022, Telegram resumed operations in Brazil after failing to comply with local laws. (Telegram has since resumed operations in Brazil.)
On Thursday, Elon Musk’s other company, SpaceX’s Starlink, announced Share Brazil’s Supreme Court has frozen the company’s finances, Starlink said in a statement, after the judge ruled that the company should be liable for Musk’s fines for X.
