A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk after the multi-billionaire said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that the judge had ordered to be blocked.<\/b><\/p>\n
Mr Musk\u00a0posted on the platform,\u00a0external<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that the restrictions had been lifted because the court order was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n He also\u00a0called for,\u00a0external<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Justice Alexandre de Moraes to “resign or be impeached”.<\/p>\n If X fails to comply with the order, it will be fined 100,000 reais ($19,774; \u00a315,670) a day.<\/p>\n In his decision, Justice Moraes wrote that Mr Musk had launched a disinformation campaign against the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n The platform’s Global Government Affairs team said the company was not allowed to say which accounts were affected.<\/p>\n But Mr Musk\u00a0has since posted,\u00a0external<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that “X will publish everything demanded by [Moraes] and how those requests violate Brazilian law”.<\/p>\n The profiles are believed to have been linked to far-right movements which posted content related to\u00a0riots on 8 January last year<\/a>\u00a0when thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace.<\/p>\n Justice Moraes gained prominence after his decisions to restrict social media platforms in the country.<\/p>\n He is also investigating Mr Bolsonaro and his supporters for their roles in an alleged attempted coup d’\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n On Saturday, the former president posted a video of a meeting he had with Mr Musk in May 2022.<\/p>\n Hours earlier, Mr Bolsonaro also called on his supporters to gather on 21 April.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Brazil’s communication minister Paulo Pimenta criticised Mr Musk, posting in capital letters that “social networks are not a lawless land”.<\/p>\n “We will not allow anyone, regardless of the money and power they have, to affront our homeland,” he added.<\/p>\n If X decides to disobey the order, the platform could be blocked temporarily according to Bruna Santos who is the global campaigns manager at non profit organisation Digital Action.<\/p>\n “Musk acted to provoke the Brazilian judiciary,” she said. “I think there is a real chance that X might get blocked.”<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"