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Reuters

Agence France-Presse

A block on Elon Musk’s X social network in Brazil took effect early on Saturday after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension.
Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of the platform following a months-long stand-off with the tech billionaire over disinformation in South America’s largest nation.
The popular social media platform missed a court-imposed deadline on Thursday evening to name a legal representative in Brazil, triggering the suspension.
Musk has argued that Moraes was trying to enforce unjustified censorship, while the judge has insisted that social media needs hate speech regulations.
“They’re shutting down the #1 source of truth in Brazil,” Musk said in a post on X on Friday.
In the decision, Moraes ordered the full and immediate suspension of X in the country until all related court orders on X were complied with, including the payment of fines amounting 18.5 million reais (US$3.28 million) and the nomination of a legal representative in Brazil.
Moraes ordered telecommunications regulator Anatel to implement the suspension order, and to confirm to the court within 24 hours that it has carried it out.
In a bid to avoid the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent the blockage, Moraes said that individuals or companies who tried to keep access to the social network that way could be fined up to 50,000 reais a day.

X said late on Thursday that it expected Moraes to order a shutdown “soon”, after a court-imposed deadline expired for the company to identify a legal representative in Brazil.
Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts implicated in probes of so-called digital militias accused of spreading distorted news and hate.
Musk, denouncing the order as censorship, responded by closing the platform’s offices in Brazil. X, formerly known as Twitter, said at the time that its services would still be available in Brazil.
Amid the underlying feud over X, Brazil’s Supreme Court also blocked the local bank accounts of the Starlink satellite internet firm, which is 40 per cent owned by Musk, leading the company on Friday to ask the court to suspend that decision.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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The decision is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between the tech billionaire and a justice at the country’s top court


The decision is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between the tech billionaire and a justice at the country’s top court.
