Brazil’s Supreme Court on Sunday revoked the nationwide ban on messaging app Telegram after it successfully complied with the court orders and the country’s laws.

For those unaware, Brazil’s Supreme court had issued a ban on Telegram as the messaging app failed to comply with the court’s orders regarding an arrest warrant issued in the name of a blogger Allan dos Santos who is an ally of the current president Jair Bolsonaro and has been accused of spreading fake news via Telegram. The activist, a fugitive now based in the United States, has remained active on Telegram.

Telegram had also ignored requests from Brazilian authorities, including a police request to block profiles and provide information linked to the blogger. Telegram had also failed to name a legal representative in Brazil, unlike its competitors

The court had given Telegram till Sunday to comply with its orders. Telegram founder Pavel Durov responded by apologizing for the company’s “negligence” in replying to court orders and the company also complied by blocking the accounts spreading misinformation.

Telegram also appointed Alan Campos Elias Thomaz as its legal representative in Brazil, the court statement said, fulfilling a key request.

The Supreme Court statement of Justice Moraes said Telegram had shown “full compliance.” He also added, “I revoke the decision of complete suspension of the operation of Telegram in Brazil.”

This move by Moraes has given birth to debates regarding freedom of speech and fake news. The supporters of Bolsonaro on the right are calling this judicial overreach.

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Justice Alexandre De Moraes of Brazil’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the shutdown of messaging app Telegram nationwide, arguing it has not cooperated with Brazilian authorities.

The shutdown comes in light of ignorance of previous orders regarding an arrest warrant issued in name of a blogger Allan dos Santos who is an ally of the current president Jaire Bolsonaro and has been spreading fake news on telegram. The activist, a fugitive now based in the United States, has remained active on Telegram

Telegram also ignored requests from Brazilian authorities, including a police request to block profiles and provide information linked to the blogger. The justice added that Telegram has also failed to name a legal representative in Brazil, unlike its competitors.

Many of Bolsonaro’s supporters have turned to Telegram since the messaging app’s competitor WhatsApp changed its policies on message sharing. Bolsonaro and his allies have encouraged followers to join Telegram since January 2021.

In January, Bolsonaro was asked by supporters what he thought about investigations into Telegram. He said, “It is cowardice what they are trying to do to Brazil.”  The president has also, often accused de Moraes and Brazil’s top court of rulings that go against freedom of speech.

One of the telegram’s founders, Pavel Durov, said in a statement that Telegram “had an issue with emails going between our telegram.org corporate addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court. As a result of this miscommunication, the Court ruled to ban Telegram for being unresponsive.”

“I apologize to the Brazilian Supreme Court for our negligence. We definitely could have done a better job,” Durov said. “We complied with an earlier court decision in late February and responded with a suggestion to send future takedown requests to a dedicated email address. Unfortunately, our response must have been lost, because the Court used the old general-purpose email address in further attempts to reach us.”

Durov also asked the court to “consider delaying its ruling for a few days at its discretion to allow us to remedy the situation by appointing a representative in Brazil and setting up a framework to react to future pressing issues like this in an expedited manner.”

Telegram’s services remained active till Friday evening and fact-checking website Aos-Fatos which has been monitoring pro-Bolsonaro pages on telegram reported that several supporters of the Brazilian president have been sharing tutorials on how to install virtual private networks (VPNs) so they could continue using Telegram.

Bolsonaro has also promised to keep sharing messages on an alternative messaging app Gettr, which was founded by former Trump adviser Jason Miller.

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