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Brazil’s first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, blasted billionaire Elon Musk during a G20 event on Saturday.
While speaking about the need for social media regulation to combat misinformation, a ship’s horn interrupted her. She quipped, “I think it’s Elon Musk,” before using an expletive to refer to him.
Musk responded to a video of her remarks with a laughing emoji and predicted that the Lula administration would lose the next election.
Da Silva’s comments came ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. Musk’s social network was previously suspended in Brazil for failing to comply with court orders to block accounts spreading disinformation.