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Elon Musk Has Backed Himself Into a Corner in Brazil
After a public standoff with a judge over X and Starlink’s operations in the country, Elon Musk is showing signs of wavering.
“Ever since April, he has been toying with the image of Moraes, the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and escalated in a problematic way,” alleges Bruna Santos, a researcher and activist with the civil society coalition Coalizão Direitos na Rede in Brazil. As part of his effort to make X a free-for-all of free speech, Musk reinstated the accounts of far-right influencers like Allan dos Santos, who fled Brazil in 2020 to avoid being investigated for spreading disinformation. And while Ivar Hartmann, an associate professor of law at the Insper Institute of Education and Research in São Paulo, alleges that Moraes has stretched the power of the court to new–and possibly concerning –levels, he claims it is also important to distinguish between a democracy with different rules, and a dictatorship.
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