Wed 26 Apr 2023:
Following its parent company’s failure to give information requested by authorities on neo-Nazis using the network, a Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram across the whole country, officials said.
In the wake of an investigation into neo-Nazi behavior on social media, the court fined Telegram a million reais (approximately $198,000) per day for “not complying,” and ordered the “temporary suspension of (its) activities,” according to Justice Minister Flavio Dino in a video released to the press.
“There are groups called ‘Anti-Semitic Front’ and ‘Anti-Semitic Movement’ acting in those networks, and we know that this is at the core of violence against our children,” he added, in reference to a recent spate of attacks in schools.
Earlier this month, a man carrying a hatchet killed four children between the ages of four and seven at their school in the same week as two other, non-fatal school attacks.
A 13-year-old boy killed a teacher in a knife assault at a Sao Paulo school last month.
In November, a 16-year-old shooter killed four people and injured more than ten others in twin attacks on two schools in Aracruz, Espirito Santo’s southeastern state.
According to the G1 news portal, citing police sources, the adolescent allegedly engaged with anti-Semitic groups on Telegram.
According to a document from the federal justice authority in Espirito Santo, investigators had asked Telegram for the personal data of members of two stated anti-Semitic groups on the platform.
The company handed over only data on the administrator of one of the groups, said the document, adding there was “intent by Telegram not to cooperate with the ongoing investigation.”
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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