This afternoon, Lula criticized the decision of Meta’s CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and defended that each country should have its sovereignty respected
The office of the Presidency of the Republic stated that the president’s meeting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with members of the government to discuss the decision by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp – to end fact checking on its platforms in the United States will be on Friday (10), and not this Thursday (9), as the head of the federal Executive had informed. The time, however, has not yet been defined.
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“I think it is extremely serious that people want digital communication not to have the same responsibility as a guy who commits a crime in the written press,” Lula told reporters. “It’s as if a citizen could be punished because they do something in real life and could not be punished because they do the same thing digitally.”
Lula said that what he wants, “in reality, is for each country to have its sovereignty protected”. “One citizen, two citizens, three citizens cannot think they can harm the sovereignty of a nation.”
Meta announced, on Tuesday (7), profound changes to its content moderation practices. In practice, they put an end to the giant’s fact-checking program, a policy instituted to reduce the spread of misinformation on the social network.
Now, instead of relying on independent information-checking organizations, Meta will rely on users themselves to add corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading information.
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