X’s Brazil representative resigns after Supreme denies platform exemption from court rulings

The legal representative and administrator of X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil, lawyer Diego de Lima Gualda, has resigned from his position amid platform owner Elon Musk’s offensive against Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF). The resignation was announced this Saturday, and there is still no information about who will replace Gualda, or even whether Musk will nominate him.

The resignation of “X”‘s lawyer in Brazil comes after the STF last week rejected the platform’s Brazil office’s request to be released from liability and comply with Brazilian court decisions, as well as to send all legal requirements to the company’s headquarters in Brazil. The USA and Ireland, where the country’s courts naturally have no jurisdiction. In response to this request, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, the main target of Musk’s attacks in recent days, described the petition as a “flawed lawsuit.”

Last week, Elon Musk began a long series of attacks on Alexandre de Moraes through the platform itself, calling the judge a “brutal dictator” and accusing him of censoring free speech for ordering the deletion of the accounts of radicals associated with Khair in recent years. Bolsonaro, who defended the coup and incited hatred, also called on the Brazilian Congress to remove from office the judge who is leading several cases against the former president. In response, Alexandre de Moraes ordered the inclusion of Elon Musk’s name in the process that investigates the fake news network allegedly controlled by the Bolsonaro clan for several years, and ordered the opening of a new investigation by the Federal Police. ultimately investigate crimes committed by Musk with repeated attacks.