Musk accomplished his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, simply days earlier than Brazil’s presidential second spherical runoff vote, when far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was defeated by leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“I’ve seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election,” Musk wrote on Twitter when requested by a person about elections probably “handled” by the corporate’s earlier administration.
“If those tweets are accurate, it’s possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates,” added the billionaire.
Bolsonaro earlier this yr hosted Musk at a gathering within the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, when he known as the U.S. billionaire’s takeover of Twitter a “breath of hope” and dubbed him a “legend of liberty”.
Both Lula and Bolsonaro broadly used Twitter throughout their campaigns. Some Bolsonaro allies – together with the most-voted candidate for the decrease home of Congress, Nikolas Ferreira – had their accounts suspended by court docket orders after the second spherical for questioning the election outcomes.
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