Brazil’s reacts to Meta’s decision to drop fact checking program, “social media will not become a lawless land”

Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

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Brazil’s government and Justice Branch have reacted strongly to Meta’s announcement to abandon its fact checking program. The country’s newly appointed Communication Minister Sidonio Palmeira criticized Meta's decision, calling it “bad for democracy.” Read full article

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Brasileiro
In my opinion, Brazil should ban ALL US-owned social networks and replace them. Either we create our own networks ourselves, or we create them together with the BRICS alliance.

A good example of how to proceed is the case of Tik-Tok in the United States.
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MarkWhelan
Brasileiro your plan might have worked in the days when Brasil was isolated by distance but in this modern era we are part of a global network.
The only way we can have better social networks than the “US-owned” ones is to create networks that are well above those out there at present.
We have the brains here all we need is the support to create and promote a better system.
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FortHay
Personally I don't give a rip. I am only a part of one social media platform and only that one because it supports a sub-group centered on an ex-employer of mine. Just as I am able to walk past scores of stores selling junk I don't need, don't care for and will never buy, so I (and by extension everyone else) am able to ignore all hype, misinformation, propaganda and gossip at will. No one holds a gun to my head to participate in this circus. Government, however, does, at least in the last instance, hold a figurative gun to our heads when it presumes to 'safeguard' us from information (be it false or true) and therein lies the true danger. Government involvement in the exchange of ideas (be they good or bad) is in itself bad. We do not need a nanny.
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imoyaro
I do not have a social media account and never have. 25 years in “IT,” not to mention the rise of cybercrime/stalking disabused me of the notion. Amusingly, I ran into a past student of mine who asked me if I had an account on facebook. When I replied no, she said “Good, don't...”
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