Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president's supporters

Found on BBC News on Saturday, 01 August 2020
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Facebook has complied with an order by Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

On Friday Brazil's Supreme Court fined Facebook 1.92m reais ($368,000; £280,000) for refusing to block worldwide access to the accounts - it had only agreed to block access to accounts that could accessed from Brazil - and a further 100,000 reais for each day it failed to comply.

So Brazil can decide for the rest of the world what to block? Let's wait until Iran or North Korea hops onto that train too.