SAO PAULO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Social media giant X was
available to some Brazilian users on Wednesday, one day after
the country's Supreme Court cleared billionaire Elon Musk's
platform to resume service for complying with court rulings.
Brazil's telecommunications regulator, Anatel, said on
Wednesday that it has begun ordering internet providers to allow
users to access X again. Some users were already accessing the
platform, and topics such as "we're back" were trending on
Wednesday in Latin America's biggest country.
Yet some Brazilians were still not able to access X,
previously know as Twitter, and Anatel said the time it takes
for the platform to be unlocked would depend on the procedures
taken by each internet provider.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had been
locked in a months-long feud with Musk, gave X the green light
to resume operations in Latin America's largest country Tuesday
afternoon, ordering Anatel to allow X to come back online within
24 hours.
In the decision, Moraes said X had met all the necessary
requirements to start operating again in the country, after the
platform reversed course and started complying with court
rulings Musk had previously vowed to resist.
X had been suspended in Brazil, one of its largest and
most-coveted markets, since late August after not complying with
court orders related to hate speech moderation and failing to
name a legal representative in the country, as required by law.
Brazil is X's sixth-biggest market globally and as of April
had about 21.5 million users, according to data platform
Statista.