Website did not adjust to courtroom order to dam accounts linked to disinformation.
Social media big X has been banned in Brazil.
It’s the newest improvement in a months-long dispute between a Supreme Court docket 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 concerning 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
Visitors:
Flora Rebello Arduini – Senior adviser on expertise and human rights who focuses on disinformation and social media regulation
Chris Stokel-Walker – Know-how and digital tradition journalist who hosts a podcast referred to 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
