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Brazil sues Meta and TikTok for over $500 million for not protecting minors
Similar lawsuits have popped up in the US.
The Collective Defense Institute, a consumer rights group in Brazil, has issued two lawsuits against Meta, TikTok and Kwai, another short video platform from China, to the sound of three billion reais ($525.8 million), Reuters reports. A statement from Meta said it wants "young people to have safe and age-appropriate experiences on our apps, and we have been working on these issues for over a decade, developing more than 50 tools, resources, and features to support teens and their guardians." Notably, Brazil has recently squared off with Elon Musk's X(formerly Twitter) for refusing to block profiles that the government claimed promoted election misinformation.
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