The social media company last month formally requested the court to allow it to resume service in Brazil after providing proof it had complied with previous orders, including appointing lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its legal representative and blocking nine accounts that are under investigation in a hate speech and misinformation probe. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has added a new fine for social media platform X to pay before it can be reinstated in the country, after the Elon Musk-owned firm made concessions to allow the service to resume fuctioning. Musk said on 28 August he was removing all staff in Brazil, saying de Moraes had threatened X’s legal representative with arrest. In a ruling de Moraes said X, formerly Twitter, must pay a new fine of 10 million reais ($1.84m, £1.4m) for what he called a move to evade blocks on X in Brazil. In de Moraes’ ruling he accepted the appointment of de Oliveira as X’s legal representative, but fined her 300,000 reais for not complying with other decisions he made in August.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:13:06 +0000