Social network X (formerly Twitter) announced in a statement this Saturday that it will close its office and operations in Brazil.
According to the statement, the platform will continue to guarantee access to Brazilian users, but has decided to close its representative office and commercial activities in the country due to what it classified as an attempt at censorship by Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF).
In a statement, multimillionaire Elon Musk’s network added that it had fired all the employees it had in Brazil, including the platform’s legal representative, Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova Conceição. The text shows that the decision was made after STF judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of the executive on Friday evening for failing to comply with magistrate orders.
Musk and Moraes have been waging a long-running war, which has already led a magistrate to slap multiple fines on the platform and threaten to arrest its legal representatives in Brazil because “X” has consistently disobeyed his orders to remove false content and hate speech from far-right groups linked to former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Musk, in turn, accused the judge of trying to establish a judicial dictatorship in Brazil, of promoting censorship and trying to limit freedom of speech, and even claimed, without providing any evidence, that Alexandre de Moraes personally interfered in the 2022 presidential elections to ensure Lula da Silva’s victory and prevent Jair Bolsonaro from continuing in office.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha (Correspondent in Brazil)
Source: CM Jornal
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