My colleague Dionne Sercey is gone on a trip Along the Congo River, the destruction of a rainforest crucial to efforts to curb global warming has exposed the haphazardly sprawlingRead More
Tag: Brazil
Brazil Lifts Telegram Ban After Two Days
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, election officials and federal police have been trying for months to get a response from the fast-growing messaging app Telegram. Turns out,Read More
Brazil Bans Telegram Over Disinformation Concerns
Brazil’s approach is notable for how it tries to force the companies that provide the internet’s backbone to block Telegram’s web traffic. The policy even covers people trying to useRead More
Brazil Flood Kills At least 20 and Displaces Thousands
RIO DE JANEIRO – At least 20 people have died and more than 50,000 have fled their homes in the floods that ravaged northeastern Brazil, officials said on Tuesday. TheRead More
Bolsonaro’s Social Media Posting Ban Overturned in Brazil
Brazil’s Senate and Supreme Court have repealed the rules that President Jair Bolsonaro released last week that prohibits social networks from removing information they consider disinformation about the upcoming presidentialRead More