“Platforms are not neutral; algorithms reward the extreme, the grotesque, the destructive,” says Congressman Orlando Silva, rapporteur of the Fake News Bill.
The death of 22-year-old Jéssica Vitória Canedo, after false information about her was published on social media, led government officials to react to the incident and boosted the defense of the approval of Bill (PL) 2630/2020, which establishes the Brazilian Law of Freedom, Responsibility and Transparency on the Internet.
Early last week, gossip accounts published screenshots of an alleged conversation the victim had with comedian and influencer Whindersson Nunes. Since then, she has been receiving threats and offensive messages.
The artist and the young woman themselves denied any relationship and said they didn’t know each other. Whindersson even warned the public that the images were fake. Both the victim and her family appealed for the profiles that published the lie to remove the information, but nothing was done.
One of the administrators of the Choquei page, one of Brazil’s largest celebrity news pages, even made a comment mocking a post in which the woman stated she suffered from depression and asked for the fake news to be removed. “Tell her that
