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Debate is hate: Brazil’s tricky relationship with X

28 October 2024

12:29 PM

28 October 2024

12:29 PM

Justice Alexandre De Moraes announced the reversal of Brazil’s X ban earlier this month.

In a decision published online, De Moraes ramped up his war on what he called anti-democratic ‘digital militias’.

Presumably talking about Elon Musk, De Moraes’ initial ban blamed ‘extremist digital populists’ using social media networks to spread ‘hate speech, and anti-democratic messages’.

The eight-page announcement restated justifications for his August ban of the social media platform.

Notably, De Moraes’ original decision repeated globalist leftwing propaganda, labelling dissent from the political consensus as ‘disinformation’.

‘Use of disinformation,’ the eight-page release form declared, ‘erodes the pillars of Democracy, and the rule of the...

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