RIO DE JANEIRO — A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice consistedof Elon Musk as a target in an continuous examination over the dissemination of phony news and opened a different examination late Sunday into the executive for declared blockage.
In his choice, Justice Alexandre de Moraes keptinmind that Musk on Saturday started waging a public “disinformation project” concerning the leading court’s actions, and that Musk continued the following day — most significantly with remarks that his social media business X would stop to comply with the court’s orders to block particular accounts.
“The ostentatious conduct of blockage of Brazilian justice, incitement of criminalactivity, the public hazard of disobedience of court orders and future absence of cooperation from the platform are realities that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes composed.
Musk will be examined for declared deliberate criminal instrumentalization of X as part of an examination into a network of individuals understood as digital militias who presumably spread defamatory phony news and dangers versus Supreme Court justices, according to the text of the choice. The brand-new examination will appearance into whether Musk engaged in blockage, crook company and incitement.
Musk has not commented on X about the newest advancement as of late Sunday.
Brazil’s political ideal has long defined de Moraes as exceeding his bounds