Overview
- Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office sent an extrajudicial notice to X asking for the removal or context labels within 72 hours on posts about the bill that equates misogyny to racism.
- The AGU said many flagged posts mixed the approved PL 896/2023 with text from PL 4.224/2024, an archived proposal that included harsh penalties not in the bill that passed.
- The notice, prompted by deputy Erika Hilton, named specific accounts including journalist Madeleine Lacsko and parody or anonymous profiles, and X emailed those users about the request.
- Following public criticism from figures like Deltan Dallagnol and Senator Sergio Moro, the AGU issued a follow-up telling X not to remove posts published by journalists.
- In a public note, the AGU said the content broke X’s own rules and that the platform decided to take down the cited posts, while full details of X’s actions were not documented in the coverage.