{"id":6862,"date":"2024-08-18T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/x-closes-operations-in-brazil-after-row-with-supreme-court-justice\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:14:25","slug":"x-closes-operations-in-brazil-after-row-with-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/x-closes-operations-in-brazil-after-row-with-supreme-court-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"X \u2018closes operations\u2019 in Brazil after row with supreme court justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, after claiming a judge on the country&#8217;s supreme court threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if the company did not comply with his orders.<\/p>\n<p>X, formerly Twitter, said it was removing its remaining staff in Brazil &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; though the service will still be available there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>The company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has already clashed with the justice in question, Alexandre de Moraes, over free speech, far-right accounts, and misinformation on X.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Mr de Moraes ordered an investigation into chief executive Mr Musk over the dissemination of defamatory fake news and another probe over possible obstruction, incitement and criminal organisation.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent orders amounted to censorship, X said, and an account claiming to be X&#8217;s global government affairs shared a copy of the supposed document in question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s press office has not yet commented or confirmed the veracity of the document.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Musk published several posts about Mr de Moraes on X on Saturday night, including one which likened the justice to the Harry Potter villain Voldemort.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s political right has long characterised Mr de Moraes as overstepping in his role to clamp down on free speech and engage in political persecution.<\/p>\n<p>He has aggressively pursued those he views as undermining Brazil&#8217;s young democracy including investigating former president Jair Bolsonaro and ordering the arrest of his supporters who stormed government buildings in January 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, after claiming a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}