Citing Meta's "lack of transparency," Messias said the company "will have 72 hours to inform the Brazilian government of its actual policy for Brazil." Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stunned many with his announcement Tuesday that he was pulling the ...
A decision by social media giant Meta to end fact-checking in the United States is "bad for democracy," the newly appointed Brazilian communication minister Sidonio Palmeira said Wednesday.
Brazil’s government will give Meta until Monday to explain the changes to its fact-checking program, Solicitor General Jorge Messias said on Friday.
In a statement to Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) in November of last year, Meta used a tone opposite to that now employed by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO, when discussing its moderation activities.
Justices and advisors of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) are cautiously observing Meta's shift towards a model resembling X (formerly Twitter). At the same time, members of the court are downplaying CEO Mark Zuckerberg's remark that Latin American courts issue decisions in secrecy.
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to do away with Meta’s third-party fact-checking service was presented as a sweeping cultural change across the company’s platforms—but apparently, its new policy will apply only in the United States.
Brazil’s Solicitor General has criticised Meta’s hate speech policy changes, while the company claims it aims to secure greater freedom of expression. Brazil will hold a public hearing this week to discuss this issue.
According to Moraes, “our electoral justice system and our Supreme Court have already shown that this is a land that has law. Social networks are not lawless lands.
For most of his life, Mark Zuckerberg was nerdy and pasty and nebbish: the classic computer geek who mostly spends his days and nights behind a glowing screen. But, in recent years, Zuckerberg has changed quite a bit,
Meta’s announcement has sparked alarm in Brazil, where the government sees Meta’s policy changes as a potential threat to public discourse. Zuckerberg justified the change by criticising the bias he s
Billionaires, foreign leaders and celebrities including Mike Tyson and Carrie Underwood will appear at the inauguration. Some prominent Democrats are taking a pass.