<p>Brasillia: A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court will vote on Monday whether to uphold Justice Alexandre de Moraes' ruling to shut down social media platform X in the country.</p><p>Moraes, whom X owner Elon Musk has labeled a "dictator," has called a virtual session of the court's first chamber - of which he is a member - so peers can review his decision.</p><p>Brazil's Supreme Court has 11 justices split between two chambers of five members each, not including the chief justice. They can vote to maintain or reject decisions by a single judge.</p><p>Justices Carmen Lucia, Luiz Fux, Cristiano Zanin and Flavio Dino sit on the first chamber alongside Moraes.</p><p>X was taken down in Brazil, one of its largest markets, in the early hours of Saturday following a decision by Moraes, who has been locked in a months-long feud with Musk.</p><p>The popular social media platform missed a court-imposed deadline on Thursday evening to name a legal representative in Brazil as required by local law, triggering the suspension.</p>.The future of social media is a lot less social.<p>The dispute over X has its roots in a Moraes order earlier this year that required the platform to block accounts implicated in probes of alleged misinformation and hate.</p><p>Musk has argued that Moraes was trying to enforce unjustified censorship and closed the X office in Brazil in August, without appointing a new representative. The judge has insisted that social media needs hate speech regulations.</p><p>Moraes' latest decision was backed by Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso.</p><p>"A company that refuses to name a legal representative in Brazil cannot operate in Brazilian territory," Barroso said in an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published on Sunday.</p>
<p>Brasillia: A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court will vote on Monday whether to uphold Justice Alexandre de Moraes' ruling to shut down social media platform X in the country.</p><p>Moraes, whom X owner Elon Musk has labeled a "dictator," has called a virtual session of the court's first chamber - of which he is a member - so peers can review his decision.</p><p>Brazil's Supreme Court has 11 justices split between two chambers of five members each, not including the chief justice. They can vote to maintain or reject decisions by a single judge.</p><p>Justices Carmen Lucia, Luiz Fux, Cristiano Zanin and Flavio Dino sit on the first chamber alongside Moraes.</p><p>X was taken down in Brazil, one of its largest markets, in the early hours of Saturday following a decision by Moraes, who has been locked in a months-long feud with Musk.</p><p>The popular social media platform missed a court-imposed deadline on Thursday evening to name a legal representative in Brazil as required by local law, triggering the suspension.</p>.The future of social media is a lot less social.<p>The dispute over X has its roots in a Moraes order earlier this year that required the platform to block accounts implicated in probes of alleged misinformation and hate.</p><p>Musk has argued that Moraes was trying to enforce unjustified censorship and closed the X office in Brazil in August, without appointing a new representative. The judge has insisted that social media needs hate speech regulations.</p><p>Moraes' latest decision was backed by Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso.</p><p>"A company that refuses to name a legal representative in Brazil cannot operate in Brazilian territory," Barroso said in an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published on Sunday.</p>