Brazil’s Supreme Court announced on Sept. 27 that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X must pay an additional $1.8 million fine, along with $3.4 million in existing penalties, before it can resume operations in the country.
The ruling, signed by Judge Alexandre de Moraes and announced by the Brazil Supreme Court in a press release Friday, was issued after X briefly became accessible in Brazil on Sept. 19 and 23, despite a court-ordered ban. The court viewed the platform’s temporary reactivation, which involved migrating services through new servers, as an attempt to circumvent the suspension.
In his latest decision, De Moraes emphasized that X and its legal representative, Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova Conceicao, must comply with several conditions before the platform can resume operations in Brazil. These include the immediate payment of the new fine, proof of payment for previous fines, and the settlement of a $55,000 fine by the company’s new legal representative….