Platform X closes operations in Brazil due to employee risk
“To protect the safety of our employees, we have taken decision to close our operations in Brazil with immediate effect,” the platform said. Platform X claims that the judge threatened the company representative with arrest if she did not comply orders to remove certain content from the platform.
At the same time, the company informed, the platform service remains available to residents of BrazilIt is unclear exactly how the closure of operations in Brazil will work while maintaining access for customers in that country.
Judge demands deletion of accounts linked to ‘digital militias’
At the beginning of this year Judge Moraesconducting an investigation into the so-called “digital militia”which accused of spreading fake news and hate during the rule of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro,requested the deletion of some accounts. Musk announced he would reactivate the accounts and called Moraes’ decisions “unconstitutional.”
In the spring, lawyers representing platform X in Brazil told the court that “operational errors” had allowed users who were supposed to be blocked by the court to continue operating.
Elon Musk Criticizes Judge for Requesting Censorship and Handing Over Private Information
Musk In posts published on Saturday, he called the judge a “complete disgrace to the justice system” and said that his company could not agree to “secret demands for censorship and the transfer of private information” to the judge, Reuters added. (PAP)
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