Brazil’s top court threatens to ban Elon Musk’s X
Al Jazeera
Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes says platform faces ban unless Musk names legal representative within 24 hours.
Brazil’s top court has threatened to ban X unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in the Latin American country within 24 hours.
Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes said in an order made public on Wednesday that failure to appoint a legal representative could result in the “suspension of the social network’s activities”.
The order is the latest development in a months-long feud between Musk and de Moraes, who has led a crackdown on alleged misinformation and disinformation in the nation of more than 200 million people.
De Moraes has ordered the suspension of more than 100 X accounts in recent years on disinformation grounds, including some belonging to supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost the 2022 election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
De Moraes accused Musk in April of waging a “disinformation campaign” and disrespecting Brazil’s sovereignty after the Tesla CEO decided to stop complying with the court orders to block certain X accounts.
