Brazil’s Supreme Court banned messaging application Telegram over disinformation concerns leading into this year’s presidential elections, The New York Times reports. Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes directed Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores within five days and ordered internet and cellular providers to make it unusable after Telegram failed to respond to orders to remove an account. Telegram’s Founder and CEO Pavel Durov apologized for its “negligence” and asked the court to delay its ruling “to allow us to remedy the situation.”
21 March 2022
Brazil’s Supreme Court bans messaging app over disinformation concerns
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