A look at “kidfluencers” in Brazil who promote online get-rich-quick schemes to other children on TikTok, Kwai, and Instagram, amid growing government scrutiny
Young Brazilians chase social media fame, selling “get-rich” schemes, while legal battles question platform responsibility and the cost to childhood. Bluesky: @rinachandran and @restofworld.org . X: @...
Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors
An algorithmic tool meant to reduce bureaucracy is misfiring on complex cases, and vulnerable Brazilians are paying the price.
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors
The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations … X: @lucas_shaw , @lpolgreen , @_night_brain__ , @ezraklein , @otis_reid , @pkafka , ...
A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users, while X had an estimated 22M users
The platform formerly known as Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media, fueling nationwide protests in 2013 and propelling Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Forums: Hacker News , r/Twitter , and...
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users
uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter to...
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased
how they looked, what political views they held, who they were friends with, and who tagged them in posts https://restofworld.org/... Garry Tan / @garrytan : Reminder that most new culture in the worl...
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers. Tweets: @garrytan , @decka227 , @cengizyar , @renske_visser , @restofworld , @j_fuller , @res...
Report: data of 243M Brazilians was exposed for at least six months after the password for a database was left inside source code of a health ministry website
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Over 16 million COVID-19 patients in Brazil, including President Bolsonaro, had their info leaked on a spreadsheet uploaded to GitHub by a hospital employee
Among those affected by the leak are Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, seven ministers, and 17 provincial governors. Tweets: @johnlilic , @arielbogle , @fascinatorfun , @campuscodi , and @1br0wn Tweets...
As Facebook promotes its “war room” and efforts to fight interference, a study of disinformation on WhatsApp during Brazil's election shows more could be done
there was even a trending hashtag. And Twitter isn't taking action. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef : “Brazil's biggest newspaper, Folha, released a bom...