Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes fined the messaging app Telegram on Wednesday for not suspending the account of a far-right elected official and social media influencer, according to a statement from the Supreme Court
. Earlier in January, the court ordered Telegram to suspend Nikolas Ferreira’s accounts and others “to stop the spread of criminal manifestations,” the statement said. Failure to suspend Ferreira’s account “is considered indirect collaboration to the continuing of criminal activities,” the court said. Ferreira, a federal representative from the state of Minas Gerais, has more than 300,000 subscribers on Telegram, 3.6 million followers on Tik Tok, and over 6 million followers on Instagram.
Ferreira’s social media savvy has played a part in catapulting the 26-year-old’s political career forward; in 2022, he was elected with the most votes of all representatives running nationwide, and the third most votes cast for any representative in Brazil’s history. Tweeting about the case Wednesday, Ferreira wrote, “They want to disappear me from the internet.” Telegram is being fined 100,000 Brazilian reais per day of noncompliance, according to a news release from the Supreme Court.
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