Elon Musk has been ordered to pay a $1.8 million high quality to elevate the ban on X in Brazil. A Brazilian choose, concerned in a authorized dispute with the platform’s proprietor, made the announcement on Friday.
Brazilian supreme courtroom justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to be shut down in Brazil final month after Musk refused to take away dozens of right-wing accounts after which failed to call a brand new authorized consultant within the nation as required by the courtroom.
As part of his effort to deal with disinformation in Brazil, Decide Moraes has been engaged in a long-standing dispute with Elon Musk.
In the meantime, Musk has repeatedly criticised Moraes in social media posts, calling him an ‘evil dictator’ and evaluating him to ‘Voldemort,’ the villain from the ‘Harry Potter’ sequence.
Moraes stated that to elevate the ban X should pay a high quality of 10 million reais ($1.84 million), after rejecting a request to reactivate the platform.
He additionally stated on Friday that the platform could be penalised for not complying for 2 days with an order to droop using a server, which had briefly allowed it to bypass the nationwide ban.
The feud between the Brazilian courtroom and the billionaire has was a high-stakes battle, testing the boundaries of each freedom of expression and company duty in South America’s largest nation.
Earlier than the ban got here into impact on August 31, X had over 22 million customers in Brazil.
The corporate has began to adjust to the Brazilian courtroom’s order to get reactivated since final week, reminiscent of appointing a authorized consultant within the nation.
