Telegram Messenger will help the Government of Brazil to curb Fake News

Telegram has joined hands with the Government of Brazil, to work towards curbing fake news and false information propagation, in the country. President, Jair Bolsonaro met the Vice president of Telegram, Ilya Perekopsky, and the legal representative of the messaging app in Brazil, Alan Thomaz at Palácio do Planalto.

In Brazil, Justice and social networks have been engaged in a relationship of dialogue in recent months, to address some of the conflicts around the adoption of practices to prevent the dissemination of false information. The concern of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) is the undue interference of fake news in the political and institutional life of the country.

Speaking on the occasion, Ilya Perosky, Vice President, Telegram said “We had a good conversation with Bolsonaro in which we have discussed freedom of expression, the most important principle on which Telegram is based, and compliance with the Constitution”