2024-04-07 22:33:34
Elon Musk called for the resignation of Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
Elon Musk, owner of platform suspected of spreading disinformation.
“This judge has blatantly and repeatedly betrayed the Constitution and the people of Brazil. He should resign or be dismissed,” said the also head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the aerospace company SpaceX on the social network that he acquired mostly in 2022.
The billionaire also promised to soon publish “all of Alexandre de Moraes’ (judicial) requests and how these requests violate the law.”
On Saturday night, Musk began a series of attacks once morest the senior judge in
“We will probably lose all our revenue in Brazil and will have to close our offices there. But principles are more important than profits,” he insisted.
A judge with an iron character and a divisive figure, tyrannical for some and a fervent defender of democracy for others, Alexandre de Moraes is one of the 11 members of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF).
Also, the magistrate presides over the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), in charge of organizing and supervising popular voting instances.
Alexandre de Moraes has led the fight once morest disinformation in Brazil in recent years and ordered the blocking of accounts of influential figures on social networks, most of them supporters of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).
The latter was declared ineligible in June 2023 by the TSE chaired by Alexandre de Moraes, accused of having spread false information regarding the Brazilian electoral system.
Bolsonaro is also being investigated for an “attempted coup” to avoid his electoral defeat by the current leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in October 2022 following the invasion of a crowd of his supporters to the headquarters of the three powers. , in Brasilia.
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