{"id":938257,"date":"2025-06-13T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938257"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:36:41","slug":"brazils-supreme-court-justices-agree-to-make-social-media-companies-liable-for-user-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/brazils-supreme-court-justices-agree-to-make-social-media-companies-liable-for-user-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of justices on Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. <\/p>\n<p>Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court&#8217;s 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of justices on Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court&#8217;s 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}