Brazil discusses regulation to curb hate speech and fake news on social networks

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Brazil's supreme court began discussing on Wednesday the regulation of social networks, in a pioneering debate in Latin America on the role of the platforms in the spread of fake news and hate speech. teleSUR

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00:00The Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice began on Wednesday debating on a regulation of social

00:04media in view of the spread of fake news and hate speech. The starting point of the regulation was

00:11a police inquiry into an alleged thwarted coup plot in 2022. The case involves former president

00:17Jair Bolsonaro. Authorities could determine that criminals used social media to misinform

00:23about the reliability of the electoral system to justify serious offenses. In addition,

00:29the court will decide whether social media platforms will be sanctioned for illegal

00:34publications or not by 2025. Concurrently, the entity has examined cases related to the

00:41rules for social media platforms and the responsibility for the contents published by users.

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