Brazil’s Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered an investigation into executives of Google and social messaging service Telegram.
The investigation order was issued at the request of Aguinaldo Ribeiro, the Speaker of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies. Google was severely warned for placing a link expressing a dissenting attitude on Google Brazil’s site ahead of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies’ vote on Bill 2630, the Anti-Fake News Law, in early May.
It is learned that the bill requires Internet companies and social information service providers to take the initiative to take responsibility for discovering and reporting bad information and charge high fines for companies that refuse to deal with bad information in a timely manner. Google and Telegram have previously been critical of it.
