SpaceX has evacuated workers from Brazil and warned towards touring to the nation, as Elon Musk’s ongoing authorized battle with Brazil’s highest courtroom extends to his different companies.
In response to sources aware of the matter, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell despatched an e-mail late final week advising workers to not journey to Brazil for work or leisure, experiences the Wall Avenue Journal.
The corporate has additionally relocated its small group of non-Brazilian workers from the nation, in accordance with one supply.
The transfer comes as Musk continues his months-long battle with Brazilian Supreme Courtroom Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has ordered X, Musk’s social media platform, to take away a number of accounts accused of spreading hate speech and misinformation.
In August, X shut down its operations in Brazil, citing the necessity to defend its employees’s security amid the authorized tensions.
Final week, Brazil’s highest courtroom banned X, stating that the platform would stay blocked till it complied with authorized necessities, together with paying excellent fines and appointing a authorized director within the nation.
The courtroom additionally focused SpaceX’s Starlink, ordering its funds in Brazil to be frozen and prohibiting any additional monetary transactions, in accordance with a press release from the satellite tv for pc supplier on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Starlink posted on X, stating that it was doing the whole lot attainable to keep up connectivity for its Brazilian clients. The corporate additionally introduced it had initiated authorized proceedings earlier than the Brazilian Supreme Courtroom, describing the order towards it as unlawful.
In the meantime, Starlink confirmed it might adjust to a separate ruling requiring it to dam entry to X in Brazil.