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.