Elon Musk had already warned that he was going to challenge the legal decisions of Judge Alexandre de Moraes by “lifting all the restrictions” that were imposed on him. The post Brazilian Supreme Court Opens Investigation Against Elon Musk for “Not Obeying Orders to Block Accounts” on Twitter first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk, the owner of X and a self-declared free speech absolutist, has challenged a decision by Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordering the blocking of certain accounts. He has said X, formerly known as Twitter, would lift all the restrictions because they were...
Republican former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he thinks abortion bans should be left to the individual states.Trump made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, with seven months to go until the 2024 presidential election."The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land," Trump said. "In this case, the law of the state."He said that many states will have varying limitations without a...
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk spoke out against the effort to ban TikTok in the U.S., saying it would be in conflict with the First Amendment and it is “not what America stands for.” Musk added that while the ban would likely benefit the social platform X — which he purchased in October 2022 —
With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filipovic describes as ‘a series of broken promises’. In episode one of this new series from Guardian Australia, Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley sort through these broken promises, investigating why young people are living in a time of such economic strain.In this episode, we hear from a handful of experts featured in Who...
The Lancet Breast Cancer Commission says people with the disease are continuing to face glaring inequalities and significant adversity.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found millions of documents that showed collusion between the White House and Twitter employees to censor Americans. These became known as the Twitter files. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one American specifically targeted in those documents. “The government put pressure on a corporation to silence you. That is, by most legal standards, that would be a violation of the First Amendment,” Dave Rubin says. Rather than ignoring them, Musk then invited...
From Monday to Tuesday of this week, the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)—Elon Musk’s sanctum of free speech—briefly became a scammers’ paradise because of an executive decision to change the free speech of posts he didn’t like. Since the site’s rebrand in July, the team at what’s now X has been urging the media, the public, and the platform’s own users to retire “Twitter,” “Twitter.com,” “tweet,” “retweet,” and other words from their lexicon. But habits die hard when they involve...
The deposition, which is part of an ongoing defamation lawsuit, provides insight into Musk's acknowledgment of the consequences of his actions on the digital platform.
His car spun 180 degrees, hitting the biker behind him
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company has to “reorganize and streamline the
"I'm just heading home to have a really good cry I think"