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    What to know about Elon Musk's 'free speech' feud with a Brazilian judge

    by Gabriela S. Pessoa and Barbara Ortutay Apr 11, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    Headline-grabbing billionaire Elon Musk is clashing with a Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk bought when it was Twitter.

    Since his takeover, Musk has upended many of Twitter's policies, gutted its staff and transformed what people see on the site. As its owner and perhaps most influential user, he's also used it to try to sway political discourse around the world. His latest entanglement is inside the nation of 203 million people that has the largest population and economy in South America.

    The South Africa-born of Tesla and SpaceX bought Twitter in 2022 and declares himself a “free speech absolutist.” To his

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