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Brazilian court takes strict action on X for violation of orders, fine for $1.4 million
Brazil: The Supreme Court of Brazil issued an important order for social media platform X on Wednesday. Under this, he ordered X to pay a fine of 8.1 million Brazilian reais (about 1.4 million US dollars).
Brazil's Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes released a major directive to social network website X (once Twitter) yesterday. Based on this, he ordered X to pay 8.1 million Brazilian reais (about 1.4 million US dollars) in fines. The fine was imposed when the site declined to provide registration information about the profile of Alan dos Santos despite a directive from the court.
De Moraes, in her July 2024 decision, ordered X and Meta to block, suspend, and share the account details of Santos. The company block, however, did not arise from the company having the same, because the company did not collect the same and the customer did not hold any technical connections to the Brazilian jurisdiction.
The judge, however, rejected this argument. Subsequently, X was fined 100,000 Brazilian reais (about US$17,500) per day through August 2024 for failing to provide the data. By October, the fine had risen to 8.1 million reais.
X had appealed the fine but later informed the court that it was willing to pay the fine. In Wednesday's ruling, the court ordered the company to pay the full amount immediately. However, it is unclear whether X provided the registration data as requested by the court.
