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Brazil’s Top Court Orders Fine on Musk’s X If Ban Is Evaded
- Judge orders $920,000 daily penalty if site isn’t blocked
- Regulator says it got help from Cloudflare to restrict access
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Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Elon Musk’s X to restore a block on its site in the country or face daily fines after the social media network managed to evade restrictions through a software update.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has been sparring with Musk for months, ordered the platform pay a financial penalty of 5 million reais ($922,250) per day that X remained accessible in Brazil, accusing it in an order published Thursday of attempting to “disobey” the court’s decision to ban the site.