(9 Oct 2024)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 9 October 2024
1. Various of headlines in newspapers about Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ authorizing Elon Musk’s social media X to come back online in Brazil, reading (Portuguese) "After complying with the law, X is unblocked,", "Moraes decides to authorize X comeback in Brazil", "Moraes authorizes X comeback in Brazil after the social network complies orders and a 38-days", "Musk relents and Moraes authorizes the return of X suspension",
2. Man reading newspapers on the side of newsstand
3. Crowd of people in downtown Rio de Janeiro
4. Kawan Bloise using his mobile phone
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Kawan Bloise, 21, student:
“I just found out. My girlfriend told me yesterday, but I still had no access. I just managed to access it, thank God. I was missing it a lot. When I saw the news that Twitter was banned I thought – what a blunder."
6. Various of people using mobile phones
7. Local resident, Ricardo Nunes, scrolling through his X feed
8. Nunes showing his feed full of news tweets
9. Law student, Júlia Bahri, showing her X feed
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Júlia Bahri, 18, law student:
“I think it was one of the most desperate feelings for some time. We end up using Twitter a lot, posting our opinions a lot on Twitter. To stay without this medium of expression was a bit desperate; we got used to it, obviously, but now everything is good. Thank God.”
11. Bahri using her X app
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Júlia Bahri, 18, law student:
“I think that Elon Musk understood more or less how things work in Brazil, despite being one of the most influential men in the world. In Brazil, we don’t play this game; it has to be under our constitution and our laws. Otherwise, it does not work.”
13. Various of people using mobile phones
STORYLINE:
The social media platform X began returning to Brazil on Wednesday, after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court.
Internet service providers began restoring access to the platform after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized lifting X’s suspension on Tuesday.
“I think that Elon Musk understood more or less how things work in Brazil, despite being one of the most influential men in the world," said 18-year-old Júlia Bahri, who celebrated the return of the social media network.
"In Brazil, we don’t play this game; it has to be under our constitution and our laws. Otherwise, it does not work.”
De Moraes ordered the shutdown of X on August 30 after a monthslong dispute with Musk over free speech, far-right accounts, and misinformation.
Musk had disparaged de Moraes, calling him an authoritarian and a censor, although his rulings, including X’s nationwide suspension, were repeatedly upheld by his peers.
Musk’s company ultimately complied with all of de Moraes’ demands.
They included blocking certain accounts from the platform, paying outstanding fines, and naming a legal representative.
Failure to do the latter had triggered the suspension.
Brazil — a highly online country of 213 million people — is one of X’s biggest markets, with estimates of its user base ranging from 20 million to 40 million.
“X is proud to return to Brazil,” the company said in a statement posted on its Global Government Affairs account.
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