The social media platform X has unveiled the “Alexandre Files,” similar to the “Twitter Files,” exposing the draconian court rules that crippled its operations in Brazil.
Released as a thread on Sunday and expanded over the following days, the evidence delved into the origins of the legal battle between X owner Elon Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
At the core of the legal dispute is Musk’s courageous refusal to censor Brazilian personalities and politicians, who de Moraes claims threaten Brazil’s democracy. Also, de Moraes requested Musk hire a Brazil-based legal team, orders that have gone unanswered.
Among the targeted accounts is that of Sen. Marcos do Val, a member of the center-right party Podemos (We Can, in English). De Moraes ordered X to censor do Val after he raised grave allegations against de Moraes and the Brazilian police, the thread asserted.
“De Moraes contends that Senator do Val committed a crime in the following (now-deleted) post by denouncing the Chief of the Brazilian Federal Police, Fabio Alvarez Shor, for acting as de Moraes’ henchman and violating Brazilians’ human rights on de Moraes’s orders,” the thread added.
De Moraes contends that Senator do Val committed a crime in the following (now-deleted) post by denouncing the Chief of the Brazilian Federal Police, Fabio Alvarez Shor, for acting as de Moraes’ henchman and violating Brazilians’ human rights on de Moraes’s orders.
— Alexandre Files (@AlexandreFiles) September 1, 2024
Pointing out…
Val’s accusations stem from the fact that Shor indicted former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly falsifying COVID-19 vaccine data. De Moraes is also overseeing several other criminal probes into Bolsonaro.
“Pointing out that De Moraes and the Brazilian police chief are engaging in human rights violations is now a crime in Brazil,” the thread noted, sharing an English translation of one of Val’s posts that triggered Moraes’s censorship orders.
The post continued:
“Shor has been raiding homes with illegal search warrants, pointing guns in the faces of children, and confiscating cell phones from those children. These actions are inhumane and unacceptable, and are being carried out under the false flag of the Federal Police, when in fact they are direct orders from Alexandre de Moraes, with the connivance of this cowardly delegate.”
Other posts that de Moraes targeted included do Val’s pledge to reveal alleged evidence of federal police involvement in illegal actions and human rights violations, stemming from the Brazilian investigations of other pro-Bolsonaro individuals.
De Moraes defended the decision to order X to ban do Val, claiming that the senator's accusations were part of an “intimidation” campaign aimed at thwarting separate investigations into pro-Bolsonaro individuals.
X was suspended in Brazil on Saturday after Musk did not comply with the orders and failed to appoint a Brazilian legal representative to represent the company after a 24-hour deadline. De Moraes’s threats force Musk to shut down business operations in Brazil.
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