Platform “X” closes Brazilian office – Al-Baghdadiya Media Group

The “X” platform said on Saturday that it would “immediately” close its offices in Brazil due to a so-called “control order” issued by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Morais.

“X” said Morais “secretly threatened one of his legal representatives in Brazil if a legal order to remove certain content from the platform was not complied with, and the Brazilian Supreme Court, where Morais sits, did not respond to a request for comment.”

She explains the social media platform owned by an American billionaire Elon Muskand its services remain available to users in Brazil.

Morais ordered the platform earlier this year.”XThe banning of certain accounts comes amid an investigation into “digital militias” accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the era of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s government.

Moras launched an investigation into Musk this year after the latter said he would reactivate the “X” account that was banned by a judge. The owner of “X” called the Brazilian judge’s decision “unconstitutional.”

After Elon Musk challenged the decisions, representatives of “X” told the Supreme Court… Brazil The social media giant will comply with the law.

“X” and the British Riots

In a related development, British representatives intend to summon American billionaire Elon Musk to the House of Commons for questioning over the role his “X” social networking platform played in the recent riots that rocked the UK. He also made “inflammatory comments” about violence, according to Politico.

Chi Onwurah and Dawn Butler, two Labour MPs vying for the chair of the Parliamentary Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, said in a statement to Politico Europe that they would put pressure on the UK Parliament to ask the owners of “Company X” and other executives in the industry to answer questions about the role of communications platforms amid growing unrest in the UK.

The newspaper noted that Musk had spent days arguing with British politicians over the riots and had a war of words with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the country’s engagement with them.

Musk tweeted on his “X” platform account that “civil war is inevitable” in the UK and claimed that the British police’s response was “one-sided.”