Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Friday that social platforms
Earlier this week, the US firm owned by Elon Musk told the court that it has complied with orders to stop the spread of misinformation and asked for the ban on the platform to be lifted.
But Judge Alexandre de Moraes responded with a ruling on Friday that Ax and his legal representative in Brazil must agree to pay a total of 18.3 million reais ($3.4 million) in still-pending fines previously imposed by the court. The order was given.
In his ruling, the judge said the court could access resources already frozen from X and Starlink accounts in Brazil, but doing so required the Musk-owned satellite company to drop its pending appeal against the funds blockage. will be.
The judge also sought a new 10 million reais (US$1.8 million) fine related to when X became available again to some users in Brazil for a short time last week.
X, formerly known as Twitter, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to a person close to X, the tech firm will likely pay all the fine, but will consider challenging an additional 10 million reais imposed by the court following the platform ban.
X has been suspended since late August in Brazil, one of its largest and most prestigious markets, after Moraes ruled it failed to ban hate speech and named a local legal representative. Has failed to comply with relevant orders.
Musk, who had denounced the orders as censorship and called Moraes a “dictator,” backtracked and began to reverse his position last week, when X lawyers said the platform tapped a local representative and Will follow the court decisions.
In Friday’s decision, Moraes said X had proved it had now blocked the accounts in accordance with a court order, and also provided the name of the required legal representative in Brazil.