Brazil has emerged as a champion of tech regulation among emerging economies. It enacted an Internet Bill of Rights in 2014, which established protections on net neutrality, freedom of expression, and privacy. In 2023, a sweeping “Fake News Bill,” as it was popularly called, attempted to force more transparency from social media platforms and hold them accountable for misinformation. The bill passed the Senate — but later died in Brazil’s lower house of Congress after intense public pressure from Google, Meta, and the messaging app Telegram.
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