Musk’s company clarified that its service remains available to citizens of Brazil. (Archive Image)
Social media platform unknown announced on Saturday that it would immediately close its operations in Brazilciting “censorship orders” from Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes The platform said Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in Brazil with arrest if the platform did not comply with orders to remove certain content.
In a post, Elon Musk He said: “The decision to close X’s office in Brazil was difficult, but if we had agreed to @alexandre’s demands for secret (illegal) censorship and handing over of private information, there was no way we could explain our actions without feeling ashamed.”
Musk’s company clarified that its service remains available to Brazilian citizens.
Earlier this year, Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts as part of his investigation into “digital militias” accused of spreading fake news and hate speech during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Moraes also launched an investigation into Elon Musk after the billionaire announced plans to reactivate the accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk has criticized Moraes’ decisions regarding X as “unconstitutional.”
Following Musk’s challenges, X’s representatives reversed their stance and informed Brazil’s Supreme Court that the social media platform would comply with the legal rulings.
In April, lawyers representing X in Brazil Judge Alexandre de Moraes told the Supreme Court that “operational failures” had allowed users who had been ordered to block to remain active on the platform. This statement came in response to Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ request for an explanation as to why X had allegedly failed to fully comply with his decisions.
(With contributions from Reuters)
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