Trump attacks suspension of X in Brazil in action at the US Supreme Court

It is in this aspect that Trump uses the situation in Brazil to justify his position.

“Exercising this power risks inadvertently setting a worrying global precedent,” he warned. “A few months after the law’s approval, Brazil, a Western democracy with more than 216 million inhabitants, closed the X platform (formerly Twitter) within its borders for more than a month,” he pointed out.

Trump’s lawyers, however, distort the reason for the suspension of Elon Musk’s platform.

“Brazil’s action was reportedly linked to government officials’ demands that X censor certain speakers who were critical of the government: On August 31, tensions came to a head when a Brazilian judge drastically blocked dozens of supporters of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro”, justified the document from Trump’s legal team.

“Brazilian authorities had reportedly been fighting (with X) for months (…) over allegations that X was supporting a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against judges of the Supreme Court”, they claimed.

Trump concludes by saying that given this example, the Court “should be deeply concerned about establishing a precedent that could create a slippery slope toward global government censorship of speech on social media.” “A Western government’s power to ban an entire social media platform with more than 100 million users, at a minimum, must be considered and exercised with the utmost care – and not revised on a “highly accelerated basis”, he insisted.