Brazil lifts ban on Elon Musk’s X platform
Al Jazeera
The platform formerly known as Twitter was suspended in Brazil, one of its largest markets, at the end of August.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Elon Musk’s X after the platform was blocked amid a dispute over disinformation.
“I authorise the immediate return of the activities” of X, Judge Alexandre de Moraes said in his ruling, after the company paid millions of dollars in fines for failing to comply with a series of court orders.
He gave Brazil’s communications regulator 24 hours to make the platform accessible again.
Musk, the world’s richest man and a self-declared “free speech absolutist“, has yet to react to the decision.
Through its Global Affairs account, X said it was proud to return to Brazil, adding that it would “continue to defend freedom of speech, within the boundaries of the law” in the countries where it operates.
