OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Saturday, August 17, 2024 12:40 PM
Media platform X announced on Saturday that it would close its operations in Brazil “effectively with immediate effect” following a “censorship order” from Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
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Elon Musk’s company X alleges that Moraes threatened to arrest one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country if it did not comply with a court order to remove certain content from its platform.
X posted a photo of a document purportedly signed by Moraes, which stated that if the platform did not fully comply with Moraes’ orders, it would face fines of $3,653 per day and an arrest warrant for X representative Rachel Nova Conceição.
“To protect the safety of our employees, we have decided to close our operations in Brazil effective immediately,” X said.
Moraes launched an investigation into the billionaire earlier this year after Musk vowed to reactivate his X account after a judge ordered it blocked him. Musk called Moraes’ choice regarding X “unconstitutional.”
Following Musk’s challenge, X representatives changed their tune, telling Brazil’s Supreme Court that the social media giant would abide by the court’s decision.
Testifying before the Brazilian Supreme Court in April, lawyers for X argued that an “operational flaw” had allowed users to continue using the social media site after the blocking order was issued.
This was in response to a request from Mr Moraes for an explanation of Mr X’s alleged failure to fully comply with the ruling.
In a post on X on Saturday, Musk called Moraes a “total contempt for justice” and said the company could not agree to the judge’s “demands for covert censorship and handover of personal information.”
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