Brazil’s first lady Janja Lula da Silva, 58, set off a diplomatic firestorm after she delivered an expletive comment to Elon Musk at a panel on disinformation and regulating social media at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
After a ship’s horn sounded, she made what was apparently meant to be a quip, saying: “I think it’s Elon Musk. I’m not afraid of you, f–k you, Elon Musk.”
The comments reminded her audience of the bitter battle waged between the tech billionaire and Brazil’s Supreme Court over free speech on Musk’s X platform earlier this year, which saw it banned in the country between August and October.
With world leaders, including President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping, attending the G20 economic conference until Tuesday, Brazilian opposition figures denounced da Silva’s insult, with some of the country’s diplomats worried that the comments could stand in the way of establishing a working relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, according to the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
Trump nominated the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to join his administration as co-head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.
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