Brazil’s supreme court on Tuesday authorised the restoration of public access to Elon Musk’s X following a month-long ban, after the billionaire backed down in his feud with the top tribunal and agreed to remove extremist content from the social media platform.
The climbdown represents an about-face for Musk, who for months had taunted the court, accusing Justice Alexandre de Moraes of being a “dictator” for demanding that X remove accounts linked to far-right groups in Brazil.
“This quarrel with X demonstrated that no individual, no corporation and no platform is above the law,” said Luca Belli, a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation law school in Rio de Janeiro.