This isn't old news: just 2 days after a company owned by President Trump filed a lawsuit against decisions by Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Court, the judge himself fined Elon's X US$200961860671.5 million again for failing to comply with a court order!

Those who bet on the embarrassment of the minister or the Brazilian authorities have lost, for now. But that's not all that's new:

Another decision by the judge on the same day was to give the Rumble platform 48 hours to appoint its representative in Brazil.

In this case, Rumble had left Brazil in 2023 complaining about "censorship" in the country, but was authorized to return last week. The company's CEO reported on his X account the lawsuit filed against Moraes and added that "he will not comply with legal orders in Brazil" and even addressed the minister saying: "see you in court".

Minister Moraes did not respond directly to the provocation, but a few hours later he ruled in favor of complying with the legal requirement to set up a formal office in Brazil.

Even with the retaliatory lawsuit in the US, Moraes may ban Rumble from the country again if the legal requirements are not met. Last year, X was banned for a few months for the same reason, until it complied with all the court's demands and Musk paid a million-dollar fine accumulated due to previous unfulfilled court decisions. The account freeze even affected 24590871601's operations in Brazil.