The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Russian Pavel Durov, apologized to the Brazilian Supreme Court on Friday, saying that the blockade determined by one of its judges was due to a “communication problem”.
“It seems that we had a problem with emails between our corporate telegram.org addresses and the Brazilian supreme court. As a result of this communication problem, the court ordered Telegram to be blocked for not responding,” Durov wrote on his platform channel, where he has more than 680,000 followers.
“On behalf of our team, I apologize to the Brazilian supreme court for our negligence,” added Durov, who runs his company from Dubai and asked for a new deadline to meet the demands of the Brazilian justice system.
A judge of Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) on Friday ruled “the complete and comprehensive suspension of Telegram's operation in Brazil” for breaching several court orders, including the blocking of accounts that disseminate disinformation.
The creator of Telegram stated in his message that part of the STF's orders were misplaced in an “old general-purpose e-mail box”, but that they were already placed and processed by the company.
“I ask the court to consider postponing its decision for a few days (...) so that we can remedy the situation by appointing a representative in Brazil and creating a framework” to react more quickly in the future, he added.
Telegram, which has been banned or restricted in several countries, such as India and Russia, has long been in the sights of Brazilian authorities, especially annoyed by the fact that the company does not have legal representation in Brazil and does not respond to their demands to avoid an avalanche of misinformation in the October elections, such as the one that shook up the 2018 election campaign, especially via WhatsApp.
The Russian-born and Dubai-based platform is installed on 53% of Brazilian cell phones and is the fastest growing in the country, according to the Superior Electoral Court.
And it is key to the electoral strategy of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who defends unlimited freedom of expression, in line with the platform.
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