The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

And so I think every creator will have their own twist on this, and will have their own sort of ratio of how they want to mix their content. You said] Facebook has a playbook: they’re going to spin up a team that’ll copy five apps, the three that worked they’ll launch in Brazil and move on. They’re big enough to just do that.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Non-governmental organizations say American companies pay as much attention to similar situations unfolding in India, Brazil, and Myanmar, among other places. As a result, offline injustices are being replicated in online speech. Pranav Dixit and Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed ).

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JUNE 25, 2020

Brazil’s Central Bank and antitrust regulator suspended WhatsApp’s payment features in the country, citing antitrust concerns. It’s a setback for Facebook , which introduced WhatsApp’s payments system in Brazil earlier this month. And that’s enough for me to be worried, too. percent for YouTube and 76.6 percent for Twitter.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The company says it is still testing the feature, which is also available to users in Brazil and Italy. Also: more than 650 subreddits have now signed on to this open letter to Reddit calling for the company to, among other things, enact a site-wide policy against racism and hate speech. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).

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JUNE 30, 2020

Eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States can now participate. I don’t think the boycott advertisers have diagnosed the real problem here, and I’m sympathetic to those who question their motives. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil is trying to address misinformation issues with a new bill that would violate the privacy and freedom of expression of its citizens. Anyway, TikTok’s transparency center is great — a truly forward-leaning effort from a young company. Assuming TikTok survives beyond November, I’d love to visit it in person sometime.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

It was barely two months ago that the company removed a post by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for promoting a phony coronavirus cure. Zuckerberg and Bickert spent much of the all-hands meeting on Friday pushing back on that idea — fairly, I think. Walkout organizers are developing a list of demands for the company.

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JUNE 4, 2020

In Brazil, those who criticize the president are often met with a tsunami of digital smears. We accidentally switched the cases for California with the number of tests the state has done in the Virus Tracker section yesterday. This led some of you to believe there were upwards of 2 million COVID cases in the state. Sorry for the mistake!

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Zuckerberg then mentions a case in which Facebook removed a post by the president of Brazil. And our policies are grounded in trying to give people as much voice as possible while saying, if you’re going to harm people in specific ways. we will take them down no matter who says that. There are lines, and we will enforce them,” he said.

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