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Lula bypasses Congress to regulate Big Tech
President Lula signed two decrees to strengthen social media regulations. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday signed two decrees that give the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) broad new oversight of social media platforms, regulating online speech after years of failing to do so through Congress. Published in the official gazette this morning, both orders take effect in 60 days.
The first rewrites the rules implementing the…
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