SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian Supreme Court docket stated on Friday that social platform X must pay simply over $5 million in pending fines in an effort to resume its service within the nation, in accordance with a court docket doc.
Earlier this week, the Elon Musk-owned social platform advised the court docket it had complied with orders to cease the unfold of misinformation and requested it to elevate a ban on the platform.
Decide Alexandre de Moraes responded with a ruling that X and its authorized consultant in Brazil should nonetheless conform to pay a complete of 18.3 million reais ($3.4 million) in pending fines that had been beforehand ordered by the court docket.
The decide additionally demanded a ten million reais ($1.8 million) effective associated to a short time period final week when X turned obtainable once more for some customers in Brazil.
X has been suspended since late August in Brazil, one in every of its largest and most coveted markets, after not complying with court docket orders associated to limiting hate speech and failing to call a neighborhood authorized consultant, as required by Brazilian regulation.
($1 = 5.4341 reais)