RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 7 — Millions of Brazilians, including the president, have flocked to social media platforms such as Threads or Bluesky, where Portuguese has become the most...
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Access to the social network formerly known as Twitter was blocked on Saturday amid a standoff between Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, who has made it his mission to crack down on disinformation. “I feel like I’ve entered a more welcoming and less aggressive community, even if I miss the sincerity that was on X,” said Leon Leal, a student who has turned to Threads after a decade on the former Twitter.
“Bluesky has the advantage of having the same language and references as Twitter. However, it is a pity it doesn’t have a ‘Trending Topics’ section and that you can’t publish videos,” he said. But the fact that these other platforms have a much smaller user base worldwide “can represent a certain isolation for Brazil.”Chagas said Threads may have more users due to its link to Instagram, but it “arouses more distrust because it belongs to the Meta group” amid widespread concerns about data protection and online privacy.
But there are still a few diehards, like his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, a fervent admirer of Elon Musk, who still does not have an account on Bluesky and uses Threads to promote his account on the Telegram messaging service.
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