Brazil electoral court could ban Telegram app for not fighting fake news

FILE PHOTO: The Telegram logo is seen on a screen of a smartphone in this picture illustration taken April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top electoral authority, the TSE, is considering whether to ban the messaging app Telegram during the run-up to October elections because it has not responded to requests to help combat the spread of misinformation.

Telegram, which has a development team based in Dubai, is the second-most popular messaging service in Brazil but has no representative office in the South American country.