The president of Brazil’s supreme court has hit out at Elon Musk after the billionaire attacked court orders directed at his X platform, linking Musk with what he called a “destructive” international far-right movement intent on destabilising democracies.
Musk, a self-declared free speech absolutist, last month accused one of the court’s justices of censorship and betraying “the constitution and people of Brazil”, after the judge demanded that X remove profiles linked to far-right groups.
But in a rare interview, Luís Roberto Barroso, the current president of the Supreme Court, warned of the rising tide of “authoritarian populism” and said: “There is clearly a far-right articulation in the world. [Musk] might be a piece of it.”