The payment was made to settle a dispute with a Brazilian judge who banned the platform in August Elon Musk's X has paid millions of dollars in fines in Brazil to settle a row with a judge who banned the platform in its biggest Latin American market over disinformation.

Brazil’s Supreme Court said X remains banned in the country after the social-media platform’s attorneys paid pending fines to the wrong bank, Reuters reported late Friday. According to the report, X’s attorneys said the company correctly paid the fines.

X says it has paid all the fines it incurred in Brazil, where the platform was blocked by a judge in a high-profile showdown with Elon Musk over disinformation.

Elon Musk's X has paid millions of dollars in fines in Brazil to settle a row with a judge who banned the platform in its biggest Latin American market over disinformation. But the platform transferred the money into the wrong account,

Following the shutdown of the online news and social networking site X in Brazil, tech billionaire Elon Musk's company has once again applied for the ban to be lifted. The platform has paid all outstanding fines totalling around 28.

But the platform transferred the money into the wrong account, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who ordered the shutdown of X in August, said Friday. X, formerly known as Twitter, racked up $8.

X, formerly known as Twitter, has yet to be restored in Brazil because the company sent its $5.24 million fine to the wrong financial institution. Brazil’s Supreme Court made the revelation on Friday and will delay its decision on whether to restore X in the country.