Brazil judge orders probe of Musk over censorship charge

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A Supreme Court judge in Brazil ordered an investigation Sunday of Elon Musk after the mogul criticized the magistrate and accused him of censorship for blocking social media accounts suspected of spreading disinformation.

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, faces an investigation by Brazilian authorities over accusing a judge of censorship for blocking certain social media accounts suspected of spreading disiniformation. Photo: Sergei GAPON / AFP/File

The judge said"the social network X must refrain from disobeying judicial orders, including by reactivating an account that the Supremeordered blocked." Moraes threatened to punish the world's richest person with a fine equivalent to about $20,000 for each reactivated account.Beginning Saturday evening, Musk took to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter which he purchased in 2022, to launch a series of attacks against Moraes.

Bolsonaro is also being investigated over an attempted coup to prevent his 2022 electoral defeat against the current leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after a crowd of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the headquarters of the country's three branches of power in Brasilia.

 

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