"Brazil Supreme Court judge lifts ban on messaging app Telegram", 20 March 2022

..."Considering that the (court's requested changes) were fully attended to, I revoke the decision to fully and completely suspend the operation of Telegram in Brazil," Judge Alexandre de Moraes wrote in a document released by the court...

On Sunday, Moraes said the company informed him it had adopted several anti-disinformation measures, including the "manual" monitoring of the 100 most popular channels in Brazil. It now also will tag specific posts as misleading, restrict several profiles that disseminated disinformation and promote verified information...

The judge had also asked for the removal of an August Telegram post by Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in which he questioned, without evidence, the reliability of Brazil's electronic voting system, which has been in use since 1996.

By Saturday, the post had disappeared. "This message cannot be shown" because "it violated local laws," a notification said in its place.

...Moraes said Telegram had repeatedly refused to comply with rulings and requests from police, the Superior Electoral Tribunal and the Supreme Court itself.

That includes a Supreme Court-ordered investigation into allegations against the Bolsonaro administration of using official communication channels to spread disinformation, he said...