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Social media platform X has named a legal representative in Brazil\u2014a first step toward being able to resume service in the country\u2014but its suspension will continue until it meets further requirements, a judge has ruled.<\/p>\n

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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said in a decision published Saturday that X had still \u201cnot duly met\u201d all requirements for ending the ban, and he gave it five days to file additional documents.<\/p>\n

The high-profile judge has been engaged in a long feud with X\u2019s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, as part of his drive to crack down on disinformation in Brazil.<\/p>\n

His suspension of X last month came after Musk refused to remove dozens of right-wing accounts accused of spreading fake news, and then failed to name a new legal representative in the country as ordered.<\/p>\n

The clash between the Brazilian court and the iconoclastic billionaire has morphed into a high-stakes tussle testing the limits of both freedom of expression and corporate responsibility in South America\u2019s largest country.<\/p>\n

The social media platform had more than 22 million users in Brazil before the ban.<\/p>\n

Moraes also ordered X to pay a fine of at least five million reals ($913,000) for having violated the suspension order on Thursday, when the platform again became accessible following a technical maneuver that effectively circumvented the government blockade.<\/p>\n

X denied intentionally defying the ban, saying it was the \u201cinadvertent and temporary\u201d consequence of a change of network providers. It later went offline again.<\/p>\n

But Moraes said X had intentionally engaged in \u201cmalicious, illicit and persistent\u201d efforts to defy Brazilian justice.<\/p>\n

In their continuing head-to-head, Musk has accused Moraes of being an \u201cevil dictator,\u201d while the magistrate has insisted that X cannot be allowed to disseminate disinformation that might endanger democracy.<\/p>\n

The suspension was applauded by Brazil\u2019s political left behind President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, while the rightist opposition and former president Jair Bolsonaro have blasted it as unconstitutional censorship.<\/p>\n

Moraes has also frozen the assets of X and Musk\u2019s satellite internet operator Starlink \u2014 which has been operating in Brazil since 2022, especially in remote communities in the Amazon \u2014 to ensure payment of fines imposed on the social network for flouting court orders.<\/p>\n

Musk has repeatedly hit out at Moraes in social media posts, calling him an \u201cevil dictator\u201d and dubbing him \u201cVoldemort\u201d after the villain from the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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