The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered social platform Telegram to be suspended and barred from operating in the country until it complies with outstanding court orders. Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that the messaging app has repeatedly failed to follow Brazilian law and failed to comply with court orders to freeze accounts that allegedly spread disinformation, according to a copy of the ruling seen by Reuters. According to Moraes’s ruling, Telegram has repeatedly failed to block offending accounts and ignored the court’s decisions. Moraes gave telecoms regulator Anatel 24 hours to implement the suspension, which would stand until Telegram complies with outstanding court orders, pays a series of fines, and presents a country representative before the court. Anatel said it had “forwarded the judicial decision to the entities operating in the regulated sector.” The judge also ordered Apple and Google to help block users on their platforms from being …
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