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Brazil’s bureaucrats bully Twitter

13 April 2024

8:24 AM

13 April 2024

8:24 AM

Brazil is on the brink of banning Twitter, with its bureaucrats accusing Elon Musk of breaking Brazilian law.

The order to investigate Musk as a ‘threat to democracy’ came after Musk defied the demands of the Brazilian Supreme Court El Jefe, Alexandre de Moraes.

De Moraes – championed by progressives as a ‘defender of democracy’ – wanted Musk to block ‘popular accounts’.

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