Brazilian officials also ask tech giant to clarify whether it intends to implement changes in country within 30 days

Summary

Brazil criticized Meta’s decision to end factchecking in the U.S., with Communication Minister Sidonio Palmeira calling it harmful to democracy due to unchecked misinformation.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to replace factchecking with “community notes,” sparking global concerns about misinformation.

Brazil’s public prosecutor has demanded clarification within 30 days on whether these changes will extend to Brazil.

President Lula emphasized the dangers of disinformation and vowed to combat hate speech, recalling Brazil’s strong stance on regulating social media, including past actions against Twitter/X for noncompliance.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    The Supreme Court is now attempting to declare this notice-and-takedown system unconstitutional

    This piece explains more or less how the debacle really isn’t about whether it’s unconstitutional, but a matter of convenience (so, yeah, a STF façade) - https://www.jota.info/artigos/marco-civil-da-internet-consideracoes-sobre-o-julgamento-da-constitucionalidade-do-art-19

    It also explains that the constitution article being used is 5 XXXII, which is about consumer rights

    Article 19, the piece being judged unconstitutional, is obviously not so. The problem, from my point of view, is that it needs to add more cases where the host/provider IS liable for content, especially any content which is advertised (that is, the platform gets money to make some content more visible it to more people). But that’d actually be good, and I know not to expect good things from my country, not even as side effect.