BRASILIA — Brazil’s Supreme Court has lifted a freeze imposed on the bank accounts of Starlink and social media platform X after 18.35 million reais (US$3.3 million) was transferred from the accounts to the government.
However, the ban on X in Brazil was not lifted, Reuters reports, as supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes held that issues concerning a lack of legal representation have not been addressed.
Additionally, X has also not complied with his order to remove certain accounts from the platform.
Reuters reports that a court order on Friday lifted the freeze on the bank accounts as the amount transferred reached the sum that X owed Brazil in fines.
The court on August 30 ordered a block on access to X in Brazil after the platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk failed to comply with order to block certain accused accused of spreading fake news and hate messages.
Musk has decried the order as “censorship”.
Last week, it was reported that thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to protest the court’s ban on X in the country, which is X’s sixth-largest market. — September 14, 2024