by Admin
Aug 17, 2024
The popular X social media platform formerly known as Twitter has on Saturday announced that it will shut down its Brazil operations with immediate effect even though its services will remain available to the platform users in the South American country.
This was disclosed after the platform accused the Brazilian government of censorship orders from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The American social media company disclosed that the Brazilian judge covertly threatened one of its senior officials with arrest if the social media platform didn’t comply with the court order to take down some specific contents and block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election disinformation and “digital militias.”
In a recent post by the X Global Government Affairs account, the platform said “Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions.”
The platform further said they have pleaded numerous times to the support court but all pleas fell on deaf ears. It disclosed that the Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes had ignored the Brazilian rule of law resulting in threatening its Brazilian staff.
“As a result, to protect the safety of our staff, we have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately.”
The company indicated that the actions of Judge Moraes were not compatible with those of a democratic government.
Prodesqagency gathers that earlier this year, Judge Moraes opened a criminal inquiry into Elon Musk after X’s owner said he would defy a court order by lifting restrictions on designated accounts after the social media platform listed some of the targeted accounts and said they include “a pastor, a current Parliamentarian, and the wife of a former Parliamentarian.” in an earlier post by the platform.
The decision that the company has prepared to take action after it indicated that it would go against a court order by lifting restrictions on designated accounts.
Ever since the beginning of the court tussle between X and the Brazilian government, the supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro who are considered to be far-right have criticized Moraes and called for his removal from office.