X suspends business in Brazil over censorship row

The social media platform says its legal representative was threatened by a supreme court judge.

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The social media platform said a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, threatened its legal representative in Brazil with arrest if it did not comply with his "censorship orders".

Brazil's Supreme Court has not commented.

People in Brazil are still able to use X, billionaire Elon Musk's platform said on Saturday.

Mr Moraes had ordered X accounts he has accused of spreading disinformation - many supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro - must be blocked while they are under investigation.

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