Shellenberger and other Musk outriders had attempted to build a narrative that Brazil is now an “authoritarian socialist dictatorship”, on account of the investigation of January 8 coup plotters and demands that Twitter hand over their personal data to police and the court, as per Brazilian law. This use of the “Authoritarian Brazil” narrative Musk is pushing to shape US foreign policy was demonstrated in reports by Agencia Publica that this March, a delegation of Brazilian far right congresspeople, led by Eduardo Bolsonaro, went to Washington D.C. in an effort to convince Republican lawmakers to approve US sanctions against Brazil.