‘Self-regulation has proven a failure’: Brazilian leaders defend the need for social media regulation
Regulating misinformation on social media platforms is not an attack on the freedom of speech. That’s the message three high-ranking Brazilian officials shared with fact-checkers from around the world at GlobalFact, the world’s largest fact-checking summit, hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute.
“We must always repeat that what is not allowed in the real world is not allowed in the digital world,” Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said.
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