Meta's loosened moderation policy puts it on a collision course with regulations in Latin America’s largest economy.

Brazil’s Solicitor General has criticised Meta’s hate speech policy changes, while the company claims it aims to secure greater freedom of expression. Brazil will hold a public hearing this week to discuss this issue.

In response to changes in Meta's content moderation policies, the Brazilian government recently held a public hearing in which Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for a clear, firm liability regime for digital platforms to be urgently introduced in Brazilian law.

Episode 5 of When Calls the Heart Season 12, titled Mom’s the Word, will air on February 2, 2025, at 9/8c on Hallmark Channel.

Maga is built more on the cult of the entrepreneur than on the cult of the strongman, though they overlap. Many businesspeople regard great entrepreneurs as the winners of life’s game. Trump built his reputation playing a great entrepreneur on TV.

US tech giants are preparing to test the EU’s resolve, emboldened by support from the Trump administration. The EU will need to prepare itself for the inevitable clash to safeguard its democratic and

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

He has run his Republican enemies out of his party. He has spurred a swift corporate reversal on D.E.I. And he has so profoundly reshaped the nation’s immigration debate that dozens of Democrats supported the Laken Riley Act, a bill making it easier to deport unauthorized migrants accused of certain crimes, which he signed into law this afternoon.

Since the Second World War, there has been a consensus in US politics on the idea of democratic elitism . According to this principle, elitist mediation is inevitable in mass democracies and must be based on two criteria: respect for the results of elections (which must be free and competitive); and the relative autonomy of political institutions.

Gabriel Galipolo will chair his first interest rate decision as Brazil’s central bank governor on Wednesday with a clear, well-known mission: the board he now presides will raise the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point for the second straight meeting.

As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.

Meta’s chief executive has become a more visible presence in Washington since President Trump’s return to office after years of avoiding politics.