Brazil’s first Girl Rosangela da Silva reportedly swore at Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk at an occasion in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
What Occurred: “F— you, Elon Musk,” she stated whereas speaking about the necessity to regulate social media, Bloomberg reported.
Musk responded to the snippet of the First Girl’s speech on social media platform X and stated, “They’ll lose the subsequent election.”
Rosangela da Silva is the spouse of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Employees’ Get together who gained in opposition to Jair Bolsonaro in 2022. Brazil’s subsequent Presidential election is slated for 2026.
Why It Issues: Brazil banned Musk-owned social media platform X earlier this yr after it did not ban profiles that the federal government claimed had been spreading misinformation.
Musk subsequently resorted to namecalling Brazilian Supreme Courtroom Justice Alexandre de Moraes on X, referring to him as a “felony sporting judges robes like a Halloween costume.”
“The world shouldn’t be obliged to place up with Musk’s far-right ideology simply because he’s wealthy,” President da Silva stated in September about Musk.
X was restored in Brazil in October after X complied with the decide’s calls for.
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