Elon Musk's X has been cleared to resume service in Brazil after complying with court orders

Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday granted X permission to resume service in the country after the social media platform reversed course and began complying with court rulings that billionaire Elon Musk had previously vowed to defy .

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has been embroiled in a months-long feud with Musk, gave X the green light to resume operations in Latin America's largest country with immediate effect.

In the decision, Moraes said X had met all the necessary requirements to resume operations in the country.

The platform, formerly called Twitter, had been blocked in Brazil, one of Brazil's largest and most sought-after markets, since late August for failing to comply with court orders related to the moderation of hate speech and for failing to designate a legal representative in the country as required by law.

Musk, who had denounced the orders as censorship and called Moraes a “dictator,” began reversing his position in recent weeks, with his social network suspending accounts flagged by the court, wiretapping a local representative and paying outstanding fines.

Moraes ruled in his decision on Tuesday that Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel must work to ensure that X can come back online within 24 hours.

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The dispute in Brazil was one of a series of recent confrontations between Musk, who sees himself as a champion of free speech, and governments such as Australia and the United Kingdom that want to prevent the spread of misinformation online.

Brazil's communications minister said Tuesday that X's decision to pay the fines and comply with court orders was a “victory for the country.” “We have shown the world that our laws should be respected here, by whomever it may be,” Juscelino Filho said in a statement.

The suspension of his sentence was later unanimously supported by a five-judge panel of the Supreme Court and its chief justice.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also expressed support for the move, saying that people with businesses in Brazil must follow local laws and that the world is “not obliged to put up with Musk's far-right ideology just because he is rich.”

However, the judges indicated at the time that they would be willing to reconsider the suspension if X complied with the rulings. The social media company initially said it would not comply with them because they were “illegal.”

Brazil is X's sixth-largest market worldwide and had around 21.5 million users as of April, according to data platform Statista. During the suspension, many users switched to competing platforms such as Bluesky and Threads, owned by Meta (META).

X had legal representation in Brazil until mid-August and then decided to close its offices in the country due to the court's orders, which it described as “censorship orders,” without naming anyone who would assume legal responsibility for the firm locally .

That ultimately triggered the suspension, in a lawsuit that also involved another prominent Musk-controlled company, satellite internet provider Starlink, whose accounts Moraes temporarily froze to cover the fines imposed on X.

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Earlier this month, the company paid outstanding fines, opening the door to reinstatement in the country.