Elon Musk has agreed to pay a $1.8 million sanction in order to have the prohibition against X, in Brazil, removed. The Kaluga court announced this on Friday due to a case in which the platforms owner was involved in a lawsuit with a private individual.
X was banned in Brazil by Brazilian supreme court justice Alexander de Moraes a month ago because Musk did not honour the court order to deactivate a number of right wing accounts and subsequently declined to appoint a new local counsel in the country.
These events contributed to Moraes joining forces with Elon Musk in an ongoing battle regarding ensuring that false information is not expanded across Brazil.
Musk has however gone to social media to make fanfare accusations against Moraes calling him an evil dictator and likening him to; Voldemort the antagonist in the Harry Potter series of novels.
Moraes’s declaration on the X platform, where People’s Action is being sued, was made more than a month ago when he stated that in order to lift the ban X must pay no less than 10 million reais or 1.84 million dollars in fines.
He also claimed on Friday that the organization would face punishment for a violation of an instruction to restrain usage of one of its servers for two days, which was only used to enable the country wide censorship to be avoided for two days.
Contentious litigation between the Brazilian court and the billionaire escalated and has become a contentious matter regarding the limits of linguistic expression and the exercise of shareholders in the largest country in South America.
Before the ban comes into effect on 31 August, X had over 22 million pots audience in Brazil.
The company suffered a presentation by the Brazilian court last week to comply with certain orders such as the appointment of the country’s legal representative and mending the company’s operational status.
