Elon Musk’s X social media platform went back offline in Brazil Thursday, a day after it resumed service in contravention of a judicial ban, internet providers said.
Brazil’s Supreme Court had earlier in the day ordered X to suspend access to the platform, finding the company had “unlawfully, persistently and intentionally” flouted judicial rulings and would risk a daily fine of more than $900,000 for non-compliance.
The former Twitter was banned last month in Latin America’s largest nation, but access to the phone app returned Wednesday in what the government slammed as a deliberate violation of the suspension.
X said the return of its service was “inadvertent and temporary.”
On Thursday, the ABRINT association of internet providers said the network went offline again “just before 4:00 pm” local time, and was once again “blocked.”
Judge Alexandre de Moraes in a court order Thursday called X “recalcitrant” and ordered state telecommunications …