Donald Trump\u2019s tariff threat recasts Brazil\u2019s attempt to protect its democracy as unfair commercial practice \u2013 and gives Bolsonarism a Washington stage<\/p>\n
Last June, Brazil\u2019s supreme court responded<\/a> to the online lies<\/a> that helped fuel Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s failed far-right coup attempt in 2023. It ruled that social media platforms could be held liable for some users\u2019 posts, forcing firms such as Elon Musk\u2019s X and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta to remove hate speech and anti-democratic content. A month<\/a> later, Donald Trump proposed a 25% tariff on Brazilian imports, complaining that the judges had made US tech firms take down \u201cpolitical\u201d material.<\/p>\n At a hearing<\/a> held at the US International Trade Commission last week, an extraordinary platform was given to Mr Bolsonaro\u2019s son, Fl\u00e1vio. He is the opposition candidate running to be president in this year\u2019s election while his father serves<\/a> a 27-year prison sentence. His message to Washington was that the US\u2019s problem with his country\u2019s unfair trade practices was down to the president, Luiz In\u00e1cio \u201cLula\u201d da Silva, who has clashed<\/a> with Mr Trump.<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump\u2019s tariff threat recasts Brazil\u2019s attempt to protect its democracy as unfair commercial practice \u2013 and gives Bolsonarism a Washington stage Last June, Brazil\u2019s supreme court responded to the online lies that helped fuel Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s failed far-right coup attempt in 2023. It ruled that social media platforms could be held liable for some … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}