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Elon Musk’s X Suspended In Brazil; Internet Service Providers & App Stores Have 5 Days To Remove It

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Elon Musk’s X suspended in Brazil after the billionaire owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter refused to name a legal representative in the country.

X has previously blocked accounts of lawmakers affiliated with Brazil’s former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and activists trying to undermine democracy Its Global Government Affairs late yesterday posted in English and Portuguese that it expected de Moraes to shutter the service “simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents.” De Moraes’ decision, according to the news reports, said X “clearly intends to continue to encourage posts with extremism, hate speech and anti-democratic discourse, and to try to withdraw them from jurisdictional control.”

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