Brazil announces new restrictions on social media, aiming to curb an 'epidemic' of violent school attacks one week after a hatchet-wielding assailant killed four children
Officials say websites will be ordered to take steps to ban content and users who"are promoting or supporting attacks or violence against schools."
Social media companies will also be required to send data to police on all users sharing violent content, and block users who have been banned for sharing violent content from creating new profiles. Last Wednesday four children between four and seven years old were killed in a preschool in Blumenau, a city in southern Santa Catarina state, when a man carrying a hatchet stormed the facility.
Dino said Brazil's consumer secretariat would immediately start determining each company's responsibility in proactively regulating harmful content to students.
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