Brazilian president and hiccuping body horror exhibit Jair Bolsonaro’s gamble to force social media companies not to delete his or his supporters’ awful posts has failed.
According to the New York Times, the Brazil Senate and Supreme Court have both taken moves to prevent Bolsonaro’s order that would slap companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube with huge fines if they dare to delete any content that falls outside a narrow range of categories like nudity, incitement, or copyright infringement. The provisional measure would have also allowed Brazil’s federal government to demand companies restore content in those categories, required social media firms to seek court orders to delete anything else, and imposed similar restrictions on the deletion of accounts.
Bolsonaro, whose presidency has plummeted into catastrophe after his administration’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic, accelerated destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and numerous corruption scandals, is deeply unpopular in the polls ahead of next year’s election. Propaganda is at the core of the president’s 2022 strategy and the order was transparently designed to prevent social media firms from interfering with his ability to spread lies that the upcoming vote will be rigged, as well as coronavirus disinformation designed to distract from the nearly 600,000 estimated deaths across Brazil. Bolsonaro recently staged protests across the country in a move critics warned could result in a Jan....
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