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Brazil's archetypal woman has sworn astatine billionaire Elon Musk astatine an lawsuit up of the G20 acme successful Rio de Janeiro.
While advocating for tougher societal media regularisation connected a sheet astir disinformation, Janja Lula da Silva appeared to beryllium startled by a large noise, joking, "I deliberation it's Elon Musk."
"I'm not acrophobic of you," she went connected to say, past swore astatine the billionaire, who owns Tesla and societal media level X.
Musk, who was picked to pb the Department of Government Efficiency successful incoming US President Donald Trump's administration, has a analyzable narration with Brazil and its left-wing government. X was concisely banned determination this year.
He reposted a video of the incident, captioned "lol".
In different post, Musk added 2 laughing emojis and wrote: "They are going to suffer the adjacent election", seemingly referring to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Workers Party.
Earlier this year, Brazil's Supreme Court ordered a nationwide prohibition connected X, aft it failed to sanction a ineligible typical successful the state and suspend accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation. The prohibition was lifted aft the level paid a $5.1m (£3.8m) fine much than a period later.
But Musk is besides an state of Brazil's erstwhile far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who was recovered blameworthy of discrediting the electoral strategy aft losing successful 2022. Despite the eight-year prohibition stopping him from moving successful an election, helium has declared his intent to tally again successful the adjacent elections, to beryllium held successful 2026.
Bolsonaro, who reposted a screenshot of the video and Musk's response, said, "We present person different diplomatic problem."
Leaders of the G20 nations volition beryllium gathering for the summit, which starts connected Monday.
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