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Elon Musk and governments worldwide
A sourced record of 215 statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies since 2022: interventions in the politics, governments, courts and regulation of 44 countries and the European Union, threats and legal action against critics, and the use of market power against competitors. Each entry sets out what he said or did, the background, the response and what happened next.
215entries
45countries and the EU
147with an official response
35with a fact-check or court finding
2026 1
Brazil1 sources2024 6
Musk predicts Lula government will lose next election after first lady's remark at G20 event
After Brazil's first lady Rosângela Janja
da Silva swore at Musk during a G20 Social panel on disinformation, Musk posted They are going to lose the next election
with laughing emojis.
Response: No response from President Lula or the government was reported. Former president Jair Bolsonaro shared the remark and wrote We now have another diplomatic problem.
Brazil2 sourcesMusk calls for Moraes's impeachment and threatens reciprocal seizure of Brazilian government assets
In a series of posts, Musk wrote that Moraes should be impeached and jailed, and said that unless Brazil returned X's and SpaceX's seized assets, he would seek reciprocal seizure of Brazilian government assets, adding that he hoped Lula enjoyed flying commerc…
Response: No official response to the asset post was reported. The Supreme Court's First Panel unanimously upheld Moraes's suspension order.
Brazil2 sourcesStarlink tells Brazil's regulator it will not block X, then reverses and complies
Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel said Starlink had told it the company would not block X until its frozen assets were released. On 3 September Starlink said we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,
while calling the asset freeze ill…
Response: Anatel board member Arthur Coimbra said the regulator could eventually seize equipment from Starlink's 23 ground stations if it kept providing access.
Brazil3 sourcesBrazil's Supreme Court suspends X nationwide and freezes Starlink's local bank accounts
Justice Moraes ordered the immediate suspension of X after it failed to name a legal representative in Brazil, a day after freezing Starlink's Brazilian accounts to cover X's fines on the grounds the companies were part of the same economic group.
Response: Musk accused Moraes of having repeatedly broken the laws he has sworn to uphold.
A Supreme Court panel upheld the suspension. President Lula told CNN Brasil: "o mundo não é obrigado aguentar o vale…
Brazil6 sourcesX closes its Brazil office, citing order it says threatened its legal representative with arrest
X said it was closing its operation in Brazil effective immediately
while keeping the service available, and said Moraes's actions were incompatible with democratic government.
Musk wrote that compliance "would require us to break (in secret) Brazilian, A…
Brazil2 sourcesMusk accuses Justice Moraes of betraying Brazil's constitution; Moraes opens inquiry into Musk
Musk wrote that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached,
and said X would lift court-ordered restrictions on accounts.
Response: On 7 April Moraes added Musk to an existing disinformation inquiry and opened an obstruction-of-justice inquiry, setting a fine of 100,000 reais per day for each blocked account that remained unblock…
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