With X blocked, Brazilian residents find new homes for their thoughts

As the clock struck midnight in Brazil, the feed stopped refreshing. The social network X, formerly Twitter, began to go dark Saturday across Latin America’s largest nation after a Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered its blackout just hours earlier. It was the culmination of a monthslong battle between that Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, and X’s owner, Elon Musk, over what can be said online in Brazil.