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Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has named a authorized consultant in Brazil, the agency’s legal professionals stated on Friday, in a transfer that may deal with one of many calls for imposed by Brazil’s prime courtroom to permit the corporate to function within the nation.

Andre Zonaro and Sergio Rosenthal, who had been lately appointed as X’s legal professionals in Brazil, informed Reuters that colleague Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao was chosen because the agency’s authorized consultant, and that that they had submitted her identify to the Supreme Courtroom.

Brazilian legislation requires overseas firms to call a authorized consultant to function within the nation. The consultant would assume the authorized tasks for the agency regionally.

X had a authorized consultant in Brazil till mid-August, when it determined to shut its places of work within the nation.

In late August, Brazil’s prime courtroom ordered cell and web service suppliers to dam X within the nation, and customers had been lower off inside hours after X didn’t identify a brand new authorized consultant.

The transfer adopted a months-long dispute between Musk and Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the agency’s non-compliance with courtroom orders demanding the platform take motion in opposition to the unfold of hate speech.

Courts have beforehand blocked accounts implicated in probes of spreading misinformation and hate, which Musk has denounced as censorship.

On Thursday, the legal professionals representing X in Brazil stated the agency was beginning to adjust to orders on eradicating content material, one other demand from the highest courtroom.

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