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Jack Nicas
@jacknicas.bsky.social
Brazil Bureau Chief. The New York Times. I cover Brazil and the southern cone of South America. O correspondente do New York Times no Brasil. I post my stories with free-to-read links here. www.nytimes.com/by/jack-nicas
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Que lindo. Isso é muito útil. Valeu!

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Musk talvez seja a única pessoa que controla tanto uma grande rede social quanto um grande provedor de internet. Isso pode criar o confronto definitivo entre uma empresa de tecnologia e um governo. Ele poderia tentar dar aos brasileiros acesso ao X, e o governo teria opções limitadas para reagir.

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That's a good suggestion. It was strange to me at first, too, but now I've become so used to it. I'll clarify in the next piece.

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The U.S. Supreme Court largely just decides questions of constitutionality. Brazil's Supreme Court does that — and also handles thousands of other cases and, in some ways, can even open and authorize investigations. Their sessions are televised and the justices have become celebrities as a result.

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I don't have an explainer like that, but I can offer this profile I wrote on Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice at the center of the debate. nyti.ms/479XMFs It hopefully will explain that Brazil's Supreme Court is very different, and in some ways, even more powerful than in the U.S.

He Is Brazil’s Defender of Democracy. Is He Actually Good for Democracy? (Published 2023)
He Is Brazil’s Defender of Democracy. Is He Actually Good for Democracy? (Published 2023)

Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, was crucial to Brazil’s transfer of power. But his aggressive tactics are prompting debate: Can one go too far to fight the far right?

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Yesterday Musk shared a post on X that lauded him for his Starlink donations to the 19,000 schools (which never actually happened).

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The best anecdote from this story: When Musk launched Starlink in Brazil, he flew to São Paulo to meet Bolsonaro and said they were giving internet to 19,000 schools. That plan never happened. “I don’t really think that it even existed,” Anatel's president, Carlos Baigorri, told me.

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Jack Nicas
@jacknicas.bsky.social
Brazil Bureau Chief. The New York Times. I cover Brazil and the southern cone of South America. O correspondente do New York Times no Brasil. I post my stories with free-to-read links here. www.nytimes.com/by/jack-nicas
3.7k followers73 following17 posts