Brazil's top courtroom orders Elon Musk's X platform to pay first-rate


BRASILIA, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the social media platform X owned by billionaire Elon Musk to pay a great of 8.1 million reais ($1.42 million) for noncompliance with judicial orders, in keeping with a ruling made public on Thursday.

The decision stems from a felony manner last yr in which the court ordered X to take down a profile it decided had unfold incorrect information in addition to provide registration information for the consumer. Failure to conform caused a daily high-quality of one hundred,000 reais and exposed the neighborhood criminal consultant of the social media giant to crook liability.

The ruling from Moraes referred to X's noncompliance with the order to provide the user's information, and demanded it at once pay the fine.

X's prison representatives in Brazil declined to remark.

In 2024, X become quickly suspended in Latin America's largest financial system for over a month while it did now not follow courtroom orders related to hate speech moderation similarly to failing to call a criminal representative in the us of a as required by way of regulation.

($1 = five.6979 reais)