🇧🇷🇧🇷💬🌹 — 📱 The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), in coordination with the Office of the Attorney General (AGU), is set to host a
public hearing to discuss Meta's new policies. The event will feature
participation from various left-leaning sectors in Brazil.
➡️ The guest list includes fact-checking agencies like "Aos Fatos," activist groups such as "Sleeping Giants," and LGBTQIA+ organizations, including the "Brazilian Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals, and Intersex People," the "LGBTQIA+ Alliance," and the "National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals," among others.
🤡 Government entities like the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP), the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC), the Social Communication
Secretariat of the Presidency (Secom), and the Ministry of Finance will also participate.
💥 According to a
statement from the AGU, the purpose of the debate is to "analyze the effects of policy changes on combating disinformation and promoting and protecting fundamental rights outlined in Brazil's Constitution".
📝 Here is the full list of AGU's invited participants for the hearing:
- Aliança LGBTQIA+
- Alphabet (Google/YouTube)
- Aos Fatos
- Articulação Brasileira de Indígenas Jornalistas
- Artigo 19
- Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo
- Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transexuais e Intersexos
- Associação Nacional dos Travestis e Transexuais
- BiaA Kira – University of Sussex
- Coalizão Direitos na Rede
- Comprova
- Comitê Gestor da Internet
- Democracia em Xeque
- Discord
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fundação Getúlio Vargas – Public Policy Analysis Directorate
- Gustavo Henrique Justino de Oliveira – USP/IDP
- Instituto Alana
- Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
- Instituto da Hora
- Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia em Disputas e Soberanias Informacionais
- Instituto de Defesa do Consumidor
- Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio (ITS)
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Democracia Digital
- InternetLab
- Ivar Hartmann – Insper
- Kwai
- Laboratório de Internet e Ciência de Dados
- Laura Schertel – IDP
- Lupa
- LinkedIn
- Meta
- Netlab UFRJ
- Pública
- Reporters Without Borders
- SaferNet
- Sleeping Giants
- Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira
- TikTok
- Virgílio Augusto Fernandes Almeida – UFMG and University of Oxford
- X.com
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