The world’s main newspapers dedicated space in their news, this Tuesday (8), to comment on the return of X, businessman Elon Musk’s social network, in Brazil, after five weeks of lockdown.
THE New York Times published an article titled “Brazil unlocks X after Musk backs down.” In the text, the newspaper informs that the measure was taken by the Brazilian courts after compliance with court decisions by the technology company.
THE Teams needled Elon Musk, stating that he is “obeying orders that he had sworn to resist” and the “apparent solution” of the legal battle was a “defeat” for the businessman.
“Your company lost a month of business in one of its largest markets, allowing rivals to gain a foothold there, only to end up exactly where it started,” says the article, which opined that the result was a victory for the Federal Supreme Court (STF ) and, specifically, of minister Alexandre de Moraes, “the judge who led the fight against X”.
The newspaper Washington Post also wrote an article saying that Musk’s months-long struggle, which raised the flag as a defender of freedom of expression in the country, tasted like defeat, as he had to fulfill all of Moraes’ demands to return to the platform’s activities in Brazil .
The Post assessed that “the way Brazilians see the dispute [entre Moraes e Musk] It largely depends on how they identify politically.”
The newspaper recalled that part of the left supported the actions of the Brazilian Judiciary, while the right accused Moraes of “censorship” and “authoritarianism”.
The British newspaper Financial Times followed the same line as the Times, indicating that the return of the
The broadcaster BBC The return of the social network had an impact with the evaluation of experts. For them, pressure from investors, the exhaustion of legal resources and international criticism may have motivated the change in the company’s positioning.
In the analysis of the Wall Street JournalX’s decision to “accept” Moraes’ conditions occurred due to the importance of business in Brazil, considered one of the largest markets for the platform worldwide.
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