{"id":11712,"date":"2021-09-07T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:40:22","slug":"bolsonaro-signs-decree-changing-social-media-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/bolsonaro-signs-decree-changing-social-media-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro Signs Decree Changing Social Media Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Monday officially changing Internet rules in South America&#8217;s most populous country to combat the &#8220;arbitrary removal&#8221; of accounts, profiles and content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decree aims to &#8220;give clarity&#8221; on social media companies&#8217; &#8220;policy of deleting or suspend accounts and would enable users to repost banned content, as a means to protect freedom of speech, the president&#8217;s press office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro has often been accused of spreading misinformation on social media among his constituents, with multiple posts of his removed from Facebook and YouTube during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the Brazilian leader has encouraged many of his followers to switch to alternative social media platforms such as Parler and Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro-signs-decree-changing-social-media-regulations-2021-09-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Monday officially changing Internet rules in South America&#8217;s most populous country to combat the &#8220;arbitrary removal&#8221; of accounts, profiles and content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11743,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}