President Trump’s media and technology group of President Trump and the Platform for sharing Rumble Video have sued Brazil’s Supreme Court justice on charges of illegal censorship on Wednesday.
The case comes while Judge Alexandre de Moraes weighs charges on Tuesday claiming that former President Jair Bolsonaro led a plot to overthrow the Brazil government and undermined the country’s democracy after losing its election in 2022.
Trump media lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Tampa, claimed that previous judges’ orders “censor legitimate political discourse in the United States”.
Rumble said in a statement that the lawsuit claimed that Moraes violated the protection of the free speech of the first change when he ordered the suspension of US -based accounts for a specific, politically open -known user. “
Did not name the person.
In recent years, Moraes has issued many decisions that block social media accounts while leading a crusade against perceived attacks on democracy and political use of misinformation in Brazil.
The Brazil Supreme Court and the Moraes Office did not respond immediately to commentary requests.
The Republican President is a majority owner of Trump Media, who runs his private social media platform, though the Trump organization has said he will submit the daily management of his various businesses to his children while serving to the White House.
Trump Vice President, JD Vance, a former capitalist and former Senator, had previously invested in Rumble in Florida in 2021, in the same year Trump joined the platform.
Rumble in 2023 Accessive Access to users in Brazil, citing court orders to “remove some creators” which they pledged to challenge.
The platform returned online to the country earlier this year. Director General Chris Pavlovski said Brazil had moved “to give up their censorship order in Rumble”, without providing further details, and lending it to the Trump’s election victory.
Moraes last year was closed in a month of quarrel with Elon Musk and headed the Supreme Court ruling temporarily suspended X owned by Musk in Brazil on the failure of the social media platform to enforce court decisions.
Moraes in January said that technology firms will have to enforce local laws in order to continue to operate in Brazil, adding that the Supreme Court would not allow them to use their use of hate speech for profit.
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