Distintos países han establecido o anunciado normas que limitan el acceso de menores de 15 o 16 años a redes sociales. Sin embargo, estas medidas...
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OBSERVACOM considera que no es momento para avanzar con esta medida en nuestra región, pero sí recomienda enfáticamente aprovechar este impulso para avanzar en propuestas...
La falsa narrativa de censura: Meta y su resistencia a la regulación democrática II*
El reciente anuncio del CEO de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, del desmantelamiento de los sistemas de verificación de hechos de sus plataformas es analizado por el...
Progressive presidents commit to joint actions for algorithmic transparency
At the high-level “Democracy Always” summit in Santiago, Chile on 21 July, the presidents of Chile, Brazil, Spain, Uruguay, and Colombia pledged to advance a...
Argentinian court finds Google guilty of violating man’s privacy in Street View Case
In a landmark ruling, an Argentine appeals court has ordered Google to compensate a man whose naked image, captured in his private yard via Google...
Brazilian court redefines exceptions to the principle of non-liability of digital platforms
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court declared Article 19 of the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, usually referred to in Portuguese as the Marco Civil partially...
Rumble Challenges Brazilian Court Order in U.S. Lawsuit
A dispute between the video platform Rumble and Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court spotlights the growing clash between national judicial authority and the refusal of foreign...
Google’s AI reduces media’s exposure on the internet and impacts its sustainability
By Carolina Martínez Elebi, associate researcher at OBSERVACOM. The implementation of tools like AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search—two chatbots that answer search...
Brazil: Meta and Google train right-wing activists at Jair Bolsonaro’s party seminar
The two platforms supported and participated in a communications seminar organized by Brazil’s far right Liberal Party, where they offered training on the use of...
Uruguay begins to lay the foundations for democratic regulation of large digital platforms
Representatives of civil society, journalists, media outlets, academia, businesses, international organizations, and political parties began a dialogue to build agreements that will serve as a...
Brazil: Supreme Court moves to declare Article 19 of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights unconstitutional
The Supreme Federal Court formed a majority to declare unconstitutional the article limiting the liability of digital platforms in cases where there is a court...
A draft of a new freedom of expression law for the Dominican Republic has been submitted to a Senate special committee for analysis
The initiative proposes replacing the current 1962 law with updated legislation compatible with international standards. The Senate formed a special committee that promised to listen...