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Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that social platform X must pay just over $5 million in outstanding fines to resume its services in the country, according to a court document.
Earlier this week, the social platform owned by Elon Musk told the court that it had complied with injunctions aimed at stopping the spread of false information and asked it to lift the ban on it. ‘object.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes responded with a ruling that X and its legal representative in Brazil must still agree to pay a total of 18.3 million reais ($3.4 million) in outstanding fines that were previously ordered by the court.
The judge also demanded a fine of 10 million reais ($1.8 million) for the brief period last week in which X became available again to some users in Brazil.
X has been suspended since the end of August in Brazil, one of its largest and most coveted markets, after failing to comply with court orders relating to the restriction of hate speech and not appointed a local legal representative, as required by Brazilian law.
(1 $ = 5,4341 reais)
