Brazil imposes new fine, demands payments before letting X resume

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA BRAZIL — 

Brazil's Supreme Court said connected Friday that societal level X inactive needs to wage conscionable implicit $5 cardinal successful pending fines, including a caller one, earlier it volition beryllium allowed to resume its work successful the country, according to a tribunal document.

Earlier this week, the Elon Musk-owned U.S. steadfast told the tribunal it had complied with orders to halt the dispersed of misinformation and asked it to assistance a prohibition connected the platform.

But Judge Alexandre de Moraes responded connected Friday with a ruling that X and its ineligible typical successful Brazil indispensable inactive hold to wage a full of $3.4 cardinal successful pending fines that were antecedently ordered by the court.

In his decision, the justice said that the tribunal tin usage resources already frozen from X and Starlink accounts successful Brazil, but to bash truthful the outer company, besides owned by Musk, had to driblet its pending entreaty against the money blockage.

The justice besides demanded a caller $1.8 cardinal good related to a little play past week erstwhile X became disposable again for immoderate users successful Brazil.

X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

According to a idiosyncratic adjacent to X, the tech steadfast volition apt wage each the fines but volition see challenging the good that was imposed by the tribunal aft the level ban.

X has been suspended since precocious August successful Brazil, 1 of its largest and astir coveted markets, aft Moraes ruled it had failed to comply with orders related to restricting hatred code and naming a section ineligible representative.

Musk, who had denounced the orders arsenic censorship and called Moraes a "dictator," backed down and started to reverse his presumption past week, erstwhile X lawyers said the level tapped a section typical and would comply with tribunal rulings.

In Friday's decision, Moraes said that X had proved it had present blocked accounts arsenic ordered by the tribunal and had named the required ineligible typical successful Brazil.