X changes course in Brazil

Elon Musk’s social network X (formerly Twitter) appears to be backing down from its confrontation with Brazil’s Supreme Court.

New York Times a brand new court filing was reported in which the corporate’s lawyers stated that X had complied with the court’s orders — blocking the indicated accounts, paying fines and appointing a brand new official representative in the country.

According to sources, the Supreme Court in its own letter informed company X that it had not provided the relevant documents and gave it five days to complement them.

The dispute began with Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ investigation into election disinformation. Moraes ordered the corporate to dam some accounts, with X at one point saying that may be consistentas a substitute, it closed its operations in Brazil.

Moraes blocked the service and threatened users with fines in the event that they tried to bypass the ban with a VPN. X returned to the network in Brazil earlier this week, although Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told TechCrunch that the timing of the corporate’s recent switch to Cloudflare infrastructure was only a “coincidence.”

During the ban, Brazilian users sought alternative social media, resulting in a surge in popularity for sites like Bluesky and Tumblr.

X didn’t immediately reply to TechCrunch’s request for comment, and neither Musk nor X’s Global Government Affairs account appeared to say the news. (Both accounts have criticized Moraes’ decisions in the past.) On Wednesday, X he said “will continue its efforts to cooperate with the Brazilian government to return to Brazilian society as soon as possible.”