Social network is accused of keeping the blogger’s profile active who released false information involving journalist
The defense of the social network X (ex-Twitter) informed the Supreme Court (STF) that will pay a fine of $ 8.1 million. Minister Alexandre de Moraes was responsible for the application of the fine. The Supreme Court received the statement on the last Friday (21.FEV.2025), with the request for unlocking of R $ 7.2 million, deposited in account of Banco do Brasil.
X lawyers ask for the transfer of this amount to the company’s bank account. ‘’So that it can enable the payment of the fine imposed in these records, with the consequent deposit of the remaining balance ” ”requests the defense.
With the release of the amount, the remaining amount of R $ 817.8 thousand will be paid by the social network, and the debt balance will be paid.
The accusation
On Thursday (20.Fev.), Moraes ordered the payment of the fine to the social network for keeping the profile of journalist Allan dos Santos active after disclosing false conversations related to journalist Juliana Dal Piva.
According to information forged by Allan dos Santos in dialogues onlinethe journalist confessed an alleged plan of Minister Alexandre de Moraes to arrest the former president . According to Juliana, the journalist continues to defame her even after the charge.
His account was suspended from X, but the registration data of the profile was not sent to the STF. The company said it did not store such information. The social network appealed the decision, but the minister rejected the appeals.
Allan dos Santos
The Supreme investigates the accused in 2 inquiries: the fake news and the digital militias. In 2022, he was sentenced to 1 year and 7 months in prison for slander. In 2021, he became a fugitive from Brazilian justice. Since then, he has resided in the US (United States of America).
Parallel
Moraes’s decision occurs as the US President’s media group Donald Trump and the Rumble Social Network,resort to the American court to of “Censor” The platforms and suspend user accounts, especially the right ones.
The STF minister determined the removal of Allan dos Santos’s profile in Rumble and the blockade of the financial transfers received by him by monetizing the social network, but the company did not comply with the measure.
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