Elon Musk criticized the Brazilian judge who issued the verdict.

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk said the social media company needs to move all of its employees in Brazil to a safe location or face a “total data dump.” Musk’s reaction came in response to an investigation ordered by a Brazilian judge into X, accusing him of spreading false information. Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X (formerly Twitter) to block certain accounts. Musk challenged the verdict and asked the judge to resign.

“We need to move our employees in Brazil to a safe place or we will have a complete data dump,” the billionaire said in a post on X today.

This was in response to a tweet from Nikolas Ferreira de Oliviera, a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Liberal Party.

He followed up with another post indicating how urgent it was to get employee X to leave. “They were told they were going to be arrested,” Mr Musk said.

The posts sparked many reactions on social media, with users expressing support for Musk and X.

“Safety must come first,” one user commented. “This is a disturbing situation,” said another.

Others want to know how many employees X has in Brazil.

The decision was made by Justice Alexandre de Morais, who is leading an investigation into former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s alleged coup and is Brazil’s most active top official in combating online disinformation. One of the judges of the court.

Last year, Moraes also ordered investigations into executives at social messaging platform Telegram and Alphabet’s Google who were responsible for criticizing a proposed internet regulation bill.