X could be switched off in Brazil. Good morning. You're listening to the

Marketplace morning report and we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm

Leanna Byrne. Thanks for tuning in. It looks like X could be blocked in Brazil

soon. It's all because it missed a deadline to appoint a new legal representative in the country.

The company shut down its office there earlier this month.

The BBC's Pierre Antoine Denny has been looking at that. Hello. Hello Leona.

A lot going on here Pierre, a missed deadline. The company has shut down its office.

What is going on? Well this is the end of months, if not years, of a political clash between two men who are going

at each other since 2022 when this Supreme Court judge Alexander de Morish came to fame for trying to combat this information on social media during the campaign of the 2022

a Brazilian election. He wanted Elon Musk to ban several social media accounts that were linked to former President Jayevol Sonaro, a decision that

Musk refused, and then from a decision we swiftly moved to an order, an order that Elon Musk still refused and promised that the

accounts would be reopened shortly after they were kicked off by Brazilian authorities.lon Musk saying, look, this judge just wants to assert his power and he is what he calls,

Elon Musk, he calls this judge de Moraish an evil dictator on X in a tweet that had already several

hundred thousand likes in the last few hours.

So essentially X is going to go dark in Brazil very soon.

Yes, absolutely. So we're just waiting for the decision any minute now because the deadline has passed.

The deadline for X to change the name of the legal representative for X in Brazil.

The authorities want a representative to be able to talk to when they are not respecting the law and Elon Musk says they

appoint in having me naming someone because he's going to be arrested the moment I

named that person so I'm not going to do that and according to market research you have

one in five Brazilians that are using X actively at least once a month so this is

an emerging market for for X and for Y don't must you may remember this is at the time where he needs

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