Brazil Supreme Court justice opens inquiry into Elon Musk, escalating dispute over misinformation

Key Facts

• Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he arrives at a hotel to participate in a news conference about the Amazon rainforest and to meet with Elon Musk, according to ministers, in Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo state, Brazil May 20, 2022.
• Musk -- who is CTO and owner of X, as well as CEO of automaker Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX-- visited Bolsonaro in May 2022 during an election year reportedly to discuss the use of his space company’s satellite internet services at rural schools in the Amazon.
• During their May 2022 meeting, Bolsonaro weighed in on the Tesla exec’s plans to take over Twitter as a “breath of hope.”
• X is also the subject of a probe by the European Union under their relatively new Digital Services Act, a set of laws meant to hold tech companies accountable for incitement of terrorism, hate speech, child exploitation and other harmful content on their platforms.

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