Elon Musk’s X Reinstated in Brazil After It Agrees To Pay Fines, Ban Accounts
X users in Brazil will once again be able to access their accounts following the company’s decision to comply with the demands of left-wing Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who owner Elon Musk previously called a “dictator.”
Moraes had ordered X to be banned on August 30 via a 51-page decision after the company’s repeated refusal to comply with previous demands. X announced just weeks before that it was shutting down its offices in the country to protect staffers from de Moraes’ tyrannical decrees.
Following the 2022 ouster of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was a strong ally of Donald Trump, Moraes has essentially been ruling the country by fiat. Socialist president Lula de Silva, 78, has likewise been re-positioning it globally away from the West and towards China and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) alliance.
News of Moraes’ decision to unblock the company came Tuesday this week in a statement from the Supreme Court that said X had paid fines totaling $5.1 million. X also agreed to ban certain accounts the government has deemed to ha
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