Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered a social media platform to pay 8.1 million Brazilian reais ($1.4 million) in fines for failing to comply with judicial orders. The ruling, signed on Wednesday and made public by the court on Thursday, stated that the platform refused to provide registration data for a profile attributed to an ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading falsehoods.
In July 2024, Justice De Moraes had ordered the platform to block and ban the account and provide the data. The platform claimed it had blocked the account but could not provide the requested information, citing that its operators did not collect it and that the user had no technical connection point with Brazil.
