One of the company’s employees was reportedly threatened with arrest if he did not censor accounts on the site
The service previously known as Twitter, X, is ending all business operations in Brazil immediately after it claims Alexandre de Moraes, the president of the Superior Electoral Court and a justice of the Supreme Federal Court, threatened to arrest one of the company’s legal representatives if they did not „comply with his censorship orders.“
TheX Global Government Affairs account posted about the incident on X, saying that the threat was made in a secret order; however, its sharing the request „to expose his actions.