A court in Brazil has demanded a nationwide suspension of the messaging app Telegram due to the company’s failure to provide the information requested by authorities on neo-Nazi groups using the platform. This development follows a series of violent school attacks, one of which may have connections to anti-Semitic activity within some of the app’s groups.
Justice Minister Flavio Dino announced that the court has fined Telegram one million reais (approximately US$198,000) per day for non-compliance with an ongoing investigation into neo-Nazi behaviour on social networks, leading to the temporary suspension of the platform’s operations. Dino highlighted groups such as the ‘Anti-Semitic Front’ and ‘Anti-Semitic Movement’ operating on these networks, suggesting that they are a contributing factor to the violence against children.
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