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Elon Musk and Brazil are beefing over X
Musk is claiming that Brazil doesn’t know its own legal system.
On Saturday, X’s global government affairs team announced that “court decisions” had forced the platform to block “certain popular accounts” in Brazil and would face daily fines (of up to $20,000, according to The Associated Press) if it failed to comply. Heading Brazil’s top election court, Justice de Moraes has advocated for eliminating anti-democratic content posted online in the wake of far-right rioters attacking government buildings on January 8th last year. “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities,” Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, posted to X on Saturday, seemingly targeting Musk.
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