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Journalistic disclosure of internal reports on the insufficiency of human and automatic moderation of millions of publications causes the company's most serious reputation crisis. The revelations, based on interviews with former employees and internal reports, show how the company's global expansion has neglected to control content because, in many cases, of an insufficient number of moderators with adequate knowledge of local languages and contexts to identify publications. potentially dangerous — or at least dubious — in many developing countries.

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The Minister of Education defended this Tuesday that the fight against hate speech, discrimination and violence should start at school, as early as possible, and underlined the importance of social inclusion. “From pre-school to adult training, Portugal considers that education plays a fundamental and irreplaceable role in the fight against any form of intolerance“, underlined Tiago Brandão Rodrigues.

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The Minister of Justice wants to increase the penalties for hate speech. Whoever is convicted and has public functions may have as an accessory penalty the ban on exercising the office. Journalists and teachers can also be penalized with expulsion from their professions. On the other hand, it intends to broaden the spectrum of discrimination that can lead to imprisonment.