Elon Musk has been ordered to pay a $1.8 million high quality to raise the ban on X in Brazil. A Brazilian choose, concerned in a authorized dispute with the platform’s proprietor, made the announcement on Friday.Brazilian supreme court docket justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to be shut down in Brazil final month after Musk refused to take away dozens of right-wing accounts after which failed to call a brand new authorized consultant within the nation as required by the court docket.As part of his effort to sort out disinformation in Brazil, Choose Moraes has been engaged in a long-standing dispute with Elon Musk.In the meantime, Musk has repeatedly criticised Moraes in social media posts, calling him an ‘evil dictator’ and evaluating him to ‘Voldemort,’ the villain from the ‘Harry Potter’ collection.Moraes mentioned that to raise the ban X should pay a high quality of 10 million reais ($1.84 million), after rejecting a request to reactivate the platform. He additionally mentioned on Friday that the platform could be penalised for not complying for 2 days with an order to droop using a server, which had quickly allowed it to avoid the nationwide ban.The feud between the Brazilian court docket and the billionaire has was a high-stakes battle, testing the boundaries of each freedom of expression and company accountability in South America’s largest nation.Earlier than the ban got here into impact on August 31, X had over 22 million customers in Brazil.The corporate has began to adjust to the Brazilian court docket’s order to get reactivated since final week, comparable to appointing a authorized consultant within the nation.
