> The comments came after X’s global government affairs team posted that it “has been forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil”.
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> “We do not know the reasons these blocking orders have been issued [and] We are prohibited from saying which court or judge issued the order, or on what grounds.” >
> The profiles are probably linked to far-right movements, which have found fertile ground on X and other social media platforms, including Telegram. Musk suggested the court orders came from Alexandre De Moraes, a Supreme Court justice who has been a vocal advocate of cracking down on anti-democratic content online, particularly following riots on January 8 last year when thousands of far-right demonstrators stormed government buildings in Brasília.