Musk Meets His Match in Brazil’s Fake News-Fighting Top Court
- Justices see battling disinformation as crucial to democracy
- Powerful court faces allegations of limiting free expression
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Elon Musk may have found in Brazil the strongest challenger yet to his free speech crusade: a Supreme Court that seems ready to take its fight against online disinformation as far as it deems necessary, no matter the criticism it faces.
The belief that fake news is eroding democracy worldwide deepened among the Brazilian court’s justices as they surveyed the damage of the riotous insurrection attempt in the country’s capital in January 2023.