The social media platform X, led by Elon Musk, has taken an initial step to resume its operations in Brazil.
On Saturday, X announced that it had appointed a legal representative in Brazil, which was one of the requirements set by the country's supreme court for the platform to operate in Brazil.
However, the fact that X has fulfilled one of the court's requirements does not mean that the operation has been given the green light.
In a decision published on Saturday, the supreme court's controversial chairman Alexandre de Moraes wrote that X has not yet "fully complied" with the requirements set and that X now has five days to submit additional documents.
X has been banned in Brazil for several weeks, where the service has more than 22 million users. The platform has been removed from Apple's and Google's app stores, and in early September, the country's highest court upheld the decision.
The original decision to ban X was made by Alexandre de Moraes. He has previously threatened to imprison X representatives if they do not comply with the country's laws. This follows several months of disputes over the content on the platform, where de Moraes claims that extremism, hate speech, and anti-democratic content are being spread.
