Elon Musk closes X office in Brazil after legal dispute with judge
- X, formerly Twitter, closes its Brazil office due to a legal dispute with Judge De Moraes over censorship
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, will close its local operations in Brazil following a bitter legal tussle over the platform’s rights and responsibilities, owner Elon Musk said on Saturday.
The service will remain available to Brazilian users.
The closure was the apparent culmination of an ongoing legal battle between Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who has said he is trying to fight the spread of dangerous disinformation online.
A post Saturday from X’s Global Government Affairs department said Moraes had “threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders.”
It said the office closure was necessary “to protect the safety of our staff,” adding, “the responsibility lies solely with Alexandre de Moraes.”
