A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction.

In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public “disinformation campaign” regarding the top court’s actions, and that Musk continued the following day — most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court’s orders to block certain accounts.

“The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes wrote.

  • @Immersive_Matthew
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    512 months ago

    I do wonder if Elon is aware that the world is generally tired of him and starting to take action from things like this story, to individual consumers avoiding his cars due to his name being attached to them? He might be in a fan boi bubble and thinks he is worshiped by all still. Hard to say.

    • no banana
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      162 months ago

      I don’t think he believes he needs to care, and if his value wasn’t tied up in Tesla I don’t think he would. But maybe he has an exit plan from that too.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      He absolutely has an echo chamber of bazingas singing his praises and showing off AI art portraying him as superhero, philosopher king, decent father, and benevolent captain of industry. Some are real, incl. Ian Miles “Ant Man” Cheong, the Krassenstein grifters, jilted ex-lover and spaghetti aficionado Grimes; but then lots of them are clearly bots, and some, I assume, are sockpuppet accounts run by the Boer himself.