The supreme court of Brasil has forced Facebook to block the profiles of a number of supporters of the extreme-right president of Brasil, Bolsonaro, worldwide.
The supreme court already ruled last week that the 12 profiles had to be blocked, as well as 16 Twitter accounts.
According to the judges, the profiles were used to spread hatred and fake news, not limited to, but including hatespeech and fake news about the judges themselves.
The profiles belong to several well known Brasilian businessmen, bloggers and militants who support president Bolsonaro.
A criminal investigation against those is in progress, for spreading hatespeech and fake news.
Twitter and Facebook complied with that request, but only blocked the profiles for users in Brasil.
This meant the verdict could be easily circumvented by Brasilians using secure vpn connections, making it look like the users are from other countries.
Because of this, Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ruled last thursday that Facebook has to block the profiles for users worldwide.
Facebook has also been given a fine.
On top of this, the judge threatened to hold Facebook's Brasilian president Conrado Leister personally accountable.
"Confronted with the threat of criminal charges for one of our employees, we have no other choice than to comply with the new ruling", a Facebook spokesman stated saturday.
Facbook has announced that it will appeal against the ruling. "The new ruling of the Supreme Court is extreme, forms a threat to freedom of speech, does not fall under Brasilian jurisdiction and conflicts with laws and jurisprudence in the rest of the world", Facebook stated.