BR · americas

Brazil

FilterAccess open1 live proceeding

The only country with a government-required filter published in the open-source For You code. Access is open; recommendations are not fully open.

Access

Available

Can ordinary users load X?

Removal requests

Not broken out

Folded into All others · July–December 2024

Court & agency files

1 still live or unresolved

Court and agency docket

Named proceedings that were public as of 15 August 2026 — cases in court, regulator files that can go to court, and statutes that would create new takedown powers. This is not a live court feed. Each card shows the last public date we have.

Full docket

Live or unresolved

Active orderAgency orderUpdated 14 August 2026

TSE 2026 election — recommendation-system exclusion

Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (electoral law + open-source filter)

Brazilian electoral law requires recommendation systems to exclude channels reported to the Electoral Court. X implemented this as Brazil2026ElectionFilter in the public For You code on 14 August 2026. TSE has also been pushing broader 2026 platform-compliance plans.

At stake

For You visibility of ~665 TSE-listed candidate accounts unless the viewer already follows them.

Opened 2026 election cycle

x-algorithm Brazil2026ElectionFilter

Closed or not in force

Complied / liftedCourtUpdated 8 October 2024

STF suspension of X in Brazil (PET 12.404 and related orders)

Supremo Tribunal Federal — Justice Alexandre de Moraes; First Panel

After X closed its Brazilian office and did not appoint a local representative, Justice Moraes ordered a nationwide suspension. A First Panel confirmed the order. X later paid fines, named a representative, and blocked specified accounts. The ban was lifted on 8 October 2024.

At stake

Whether Brazil can take the entire service offline to enforce local court orders.

Outcome. Ban lifted after X complied. Access is open again.

Opened 7 August 2024 (account-block orders); 30 August 2024 (national suspension)Decided 8 October 2024 (service restored after compliance)

STF / contemporaneous court reporting

Missing a named file for Brazil?

Allowed and not allowed

What public sources currently show — not a live feed of every withheld post. Individual jurisdiction withholdings still only appear as a notice when opened from that country.

Algorithm filterVerified source14 August 2026

TSE 2026 candidate For You filter

The only government-required filter currently published in the open-source For You algorithm. It removes posts from about 665 TSE-listed 2026 candidate accounts unless the viewer follows them. It is not a site-wide ban and is not a public list of every withheld post.

Not allowed

For You does not recommend posts from ~665 accounts reported to Brazil’s Electoral Court for the 2026 election.

Still allowed

Following those accounts still surfaces their posts. Following timelines, Search, and paid boosting are outside this filter. All other accounts are unaffected by it.

Exception. Viewers who already follow the account still see those posts. Paid boosting is carved out in the cited electoral-law text.

Basis: Brazilian electoral law — application providers that use a recommendation system must exclude channels and profiles reported to the Electoral Court (TSE), except paid boosting.

x-algorithm · Brazil2026ElectionFilter

IntermittentVerified source30 August 2024 – 8 October 2024

Nationwide block (lifted)

X was blocked in Brazil from 30 August to 8 October 2024 after a Supreme Court order over a local legal representative and prior TSE takedown fights. Access was restored after compliance and fines.

Not allowed

The entire service was unreachable inside Brazil during the block.

Still allowed

Service is available again. The remaining live restriction is the 2026 election recommendation filter.

Basis: STF / TSE orders (2024)

STF / contemporaneous court reporting

Open the Brazil2026ElectionFilter file notes

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