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flying over Brazil's vast Amazon jungle.

In June I set off to a region in Amazona State.

One of, absolutely one of the most secluded places I've ever been to.

It took us several days to get there.

And then we reached a very small town and used that as a trampoline to fly west to an area around

the Boia River where dozens of illegal mining dredges were working. And the idea was to pounce on them, catch them red-handed and then to

destroy these dredges. And when the police found their first illegal mine,

when they landed the chopper, stormed out with guns drawn,

Tom noticed something. It looked like a sheet of white A4 paper pointing up to the

sky. It was a router, providing internet through a network of satellites called Starlink owned by Elon Musk.

Even here in one of the remotest places on earth, you could not escape Musk.

This summer, the increasingly right-wing tech billionaire has been a big presence in Brazil. He's been at war with the government over his

platform X, formerly Twitter, over hate speech and misinformation and issues that are becoming familiar in lots of countries.

But unlike lots of countries, in Brazil they're doing something about it. From the Guardian, I'm Michael Safi today in focus how Brazil is taking on Elon Musk

Tom how big is Twitter of course now known as X in Brazil? Twitter has over the last few years become massive.

It's lost a bit of steam here over the last couple of years as I suspect

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