Supreme Court orders investigation against Elon Musk to be closed
On Tuesday (Mar. 10), Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the investigation into US businessman Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, to be closed.
The investigation, which had been pending in the Supreme Court for two years, investigated the alleged use of the platform to orchestrate online attacks against court justices and flout rulings that determined the suspension of profiles of users under investigation.
Moraes followed the opinion of Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet. In his view, the investigation conducted by the Federal Police showed there was no deliberate attempt by the platform to attack the judiciary.
In the prosecutor’s understanding, the inconsistencies that allowed access to suspended content were not fraudulent in intent.
On reviewing the case, Justice Moraes ruled that the investigation should be automatically closed following the request by the prosecutor-general and remain closed unless new evidence emerges.
