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Tesla CEO and X proprietor Elon Musk connected Sunday called for nan ouster of a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, whom he accused of blocking accounts that were suspected of spreading disinformation.
Musk said Judge Alexandre de Moraes had "brazenly and many times betrayed nan constitution and people of Brazil."
"He should resign aliases beryllium impeached," Musk said.
Later Sunday, Musk promised that X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, "will people everything demanded by @Alexandre and really those requests break Brazilian law."
Musk’s attacks against nan judge started Saturday evening aft Moraes threatened to "cut disconnected access" to nan platform, which Musk purchased successful 2022.
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Musk warned that "we will astir apt suffer each gross successful Brazil and person to unopen down our agency there."
"But principles matter much than profit," he said.
Moraes, 1 of 11 members of Brazil’s precocious tribunal and presiding complete nan country’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), has been a divisive figure.
L-R: Elon Musk and Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
His critics, Musk included, person accused Moraes of cracking down connected free reside successful Brazil aft he ordered accounts of influential figures – galore of whom supported erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro – to beryllium blocked.
The erstwhile president was declared ineligible to tally for agency by nan Moraes-led TSE for allegedly spreading disinformation astir nan country’s electoral system.
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FOX Business reached retired to Moraes for a consequence but did not perceive backmost earlier publication.
