Web site did not adjust to court docket order to dam accounts linked to disinformation.
Social media big X has been banned in Brazil.
It’s the newest growth in a months-long dispute between a Supreme Courtroom choose and tech billionaire Elon Musk over censorship and disinformation.
Brazil isn’t the primary nation to limit entry to the platform.
The ban is reigniting a debate in regards to the position social media performs in politics, freedom of speech and the unfold of misinformation.
How ought to social media giants be regulated? And is censorship getting used as a political instrument?
Presenter:
Dareen Abughaida
Friends:
Flora Rebello Arduini – Senior adviser on know-how and human rights who focuses on disinformation and social media regulation
Chris Stokel-Walker – Expertise and digital tradition journalist who hosts a podcast known as Techtonic inspecting freedom of expression on-line
Vinicius de Carvalho – Reader in Brazilian Research at King’s School London and founding father of the Observatory of Democracy in Latin America