Meta, the company that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, reversed the original decision to keep the video in the social network inciting the anti-democratic attacks of January 8 in Brasilia. The video’s removal comes after Meta’s Board of Oversight overturned the group’s original decision to leave the content posted on Facebook. The council is considered an independent body, which makes final decisions on content published on the group’s digital platforms. The video shows a general of the Brazilian Army calling people to “take to the streets” and “go to the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF)”, and where it is possible to read “Come to Brasília! Let’s invade it! We will besiege the Three Powers”. These calls were followed by images of Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasília, where the public buildings that house the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers of Brazil are located. In its decision, the board of directors of the Supervisory Board of Meta considered the statements in the video as clear and unequivocal calls to invade and take control of the headquarters of Brazilian powers, in the context of supporters of former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro contesting the results of the 2022 Elections and called for military intervention to interrupt the transition to the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The council still makes recommendations to Meta, despite acknowledging that the US company has established risk assessment and mitigation measures, during and after the elections, as there was a risk that the platforms would be used to incite violence. “Meta will continually increase its efforts to prevent, mitigate and deal with adverse outcomes. The post-election phase should be covered by Meta’s election integrity efforts to address the risk of violence,” the council said. The announcement of the company’s Supervisory Board decision was made by the only Brazilian representative on that board, Ronaldo Lemos, director of the Institute of Technology and Society, during the 3rd Brazilian Internet Congress (CBI), this Thursday (22nd), in Brasilia. “It is a decision that has important guidelines for us to think about not only the issue of regulation, but also the issue of self-regulation and independent regulation”, said Ronaldo Lemos. “This idea of binding self-regulation, regulated self-regulation, is very powerful and has the capacity to promote profound impact”, defended Ronaldo Lemos. Internet Congress The 3rd Brazilian Internet Congress, organized by the Brazilian Internet Association (Abranet), brings together specialists in technology, regulation and public policies, as well as from the public, private and academic sectors. Debates involve topics such as internet regulation in Brazil, the dilemma of artificial intelligence, technology and public policies; finance in the digital age, technologies for social transformation by combating hunger and protecting the environment. This Thursday morning, the Secretary for Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance, Guilherme Mello, defended that internet access is a right of citizenship and that the federal government’s biggest challenge is to expand quality internet access. “We have come a long way in recent times. There are different types of access, but there is still a significant portion of the population, mainly the poorest, who live in the most distant cities that still do not have access to the world we share”. Another issue raised by the secretary is the need for digital transformation of the public sector to provide better services to Brazilian citizens. “It is fundamental that the public sector makes use of these technologies to increase its productivity and effectiveness. We discussed a series of public policies that could benefit immensely from new technologies, from artificial intelligence, thus saving public resources, server hours and making what sometimes took months, in a matter of days. Digital transformation is fundamental for the public sector to provide better services to citizens”. At the table that discussed how finance in the Digital Age can contribute to building an inclusive future, the president of the Central Bank (BC), Roberto Campos Neto, cited technological innovations in the financial system adopted by the institution, such as the PIX instant payment system and the Open Finance (authorized sharing of data between financial institutions). Campos Neto said that the BC has other projects to expand financial inclusion, reduce the cost of intermediation and stimulate competition between service providers and enable the monetization of data. “We have other projects in progress, such as the modernization of exchange legislation and the implementation of Real Digital. All these projects are different parts of an integrated agenda for the development of the financial system of the future”.
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