Elon Musk’s X is no Longer Banned by the Brazilian Supreme Court
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After the firm cooperated with court orders and paid millions in fines, the Brazilian Supreme Court declared on Tuesday, October 9, that it was lifting the ban on Elon Musk’s social media site, X (previously Twitter).
In Brazil, X’s biggest Latin American market, the site has been barred for more than a month because of a misinformation issue.
X’s services were immediately restored in the nation by Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who had been at the heart of the dispute. Additionally, he directed Brazil’s communications authority to guarantee that the platform’s millions of users could access it again in a day.
Claims that X permitted a deluge of misinformation during Brazil’s 2022 election campaign sparked the dispute between Moraes and Musk.
When Moraes stopped the site in August for failing to remove dozens of right-wing accounts accused of disseminating fake material and for failing to appoint a new legal representation in Brazil, tensions increased.
Despite Musk’s scathing criticism of Moraes, referring to him as a “evil dictator,” X eventually cooperated with all of the judge’s orders, including paying fines totalling about $5.2 million.
The dispute, which was widely reported, was viewed as a major conflict between corporate accountability and freedom of speech. Now that the suspension has been lifted, X is back in business in Brazil.
