X On A 5-day Deadline To Comply With Brazil Court's Order

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the microblogging platform X to explain its failure to comply with its earlier ruling to block certain accounts. The court is demanding the reason by Friday as a part of the inquiry that opened earlier this month, according to a media report on Tuesday.

The court has set the five-day deadline, starting from Monday. The order was issued after X’s owner Elon Musk expressed his intention to reactivate accounts that were blocked by the court.

X has chosen to remain mute on this verdict which came on Saturday.

The court called Musk’s decisions ‘unconstitutional’ regarding X and underlined the billionaire had failed to block certain accounts that were active in early April, which went against what the company had previously stated.

The accounts were still able to gain new local followers and had access to publicise live-streaming videos, the report added. Also, the court ordered X representatives to comment on the non-compliances highlighted in the report presented by the police.

At present, the court looks to investigate "digital militias" that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and is also leading an investigation into an alleged coup attempt by Bolsonaro.

Meanwhile, the lawyers representing X revealed that the platform had blocked 226 accounts since the court’s order in 2022, which are still restricted and cannot livestream any videos.