Brazil’s ban of X amid a fight with Elon Musk over disinformation offers a cautionary message for other democracies.
amid a fight with Elon Musk over disinformation on his prized social media site offers a cautionary message for other democracies trying to balance freedom of expression with the integrity of information ahead of elections.
Musk’s feud with controversial Brazilian supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes over the order barring X intensified an ideological war that’s become a rallying cry for the billionaire’s right-leaning allies around the world. It culminated the confrontation with regulators that Musk has been stoking since he bought the platform in late 2022 and swiftly remade it into a bastion for content that serves his own political and social views.
That increasingly combative stance is making some EU policymakers more aware of the limits in their strategy of by-the-book legal proceedings and hefty fines. The DSA allows for suspending an online platform, but only on a temporary basis and when the alleged violation poses serious harm to a person’s safety or life.
In the US, regulators have little recourse to bar harmful online content, thanks to a provision in the 1996 Communications Decency Act known as Section 230 that shields websites from liability for third-party content on their platforms. While lawmakers in both parties agree on the need to update the nearly three-decade old measure, Republicans and Democrats disagree vehemently over what changes to make.
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