Brazil: Justice Moraes meets with big techs and demands ‘self-regulation’

The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, met with representatives of big techs to address mass disinformation and discussed the need for “self-regulation and good regulation.”

The meeting took place on Wednesday 1.

“My idea, in this first conversation, is to start building two separate plans: self-regulation and good regulation,” he said.

“I am talking with the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, and regulation will come out. There is no point in excessive regulation.”

Moraes blamed platforms and social networks for the dissemination of “mass disinformation” and proposed that platforms do “self-regulation” to avoid “official” regulation.

The TSE president also said that social networks were used for evil during the invasion of the Three Powers headquarters on January 8.

“Obviously, the networks were not to blame,” Moraes said.

“Otherwise, the networks would also be in the Colmeia and Papuda prisons. But the networks were instrumental.”

The minister received at the TSE headquarters the representatives of the apps TikTok, Kwai, Telegram, Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Youtube, and Twitter.

With information from Revista Oeste