Brazil News News Brazil » Social: Brazil may make spending on some social programs non-mandatory, finance minister says
BRASILIA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan said on Monday that some social programs could eventually cease to be purely mandatory expenditures, a move he said would give ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazil Social Commerce Market Intelligence Report 2025: Live Shopping Experiences Gain Traction in Brazil's Retail Landscape - Forecasts to 2030
Dublin, May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Brazil Social Commerce Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook - 50+ KPIs on Social Commerce Trends by End-Use Sectors, Operational KPIs, ...
News Brazil » Social: Come to the 'war cry party': How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro clash with police during a protest outside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on Sunday ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazil’s Lula says plan to regulate social media is ready
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has finalized a comprehensive social media regulation proposal that could fundamentally reshape how global tech giants operate in Latin America’s largest ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazil’s Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user content
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The majority of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America ...
News Brazil » Social: A study in Brazil shows social programs have prevented 1.4 million all-age deaths over the past two decades
Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a study coordinated by the Barcelona ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazil’s Post-Riot Social Media Restrictions Aren’t Worth a Free Speech Freakout
The Brazilian government wasted no time in responding to the insurrection that shook the capital city on January 8. Hundreds of arrests were made right away, and authorities mounted a robust ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazilian social program prevents over 8 million hospitalizations and 713,000 deaths in 20 years
In 2024, Brazil celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer initiatives. A new study published in The Lancet Public Health ...
News Brazil » Social: Brazil’s floods smashed through barriers designed to keep them out, trapping water in for weeks — and exposing social woes
Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture, but for ...
News Brazil » Social: Musk ramps up attacks on Brazil’s top judge as X faces possible suspension, Starlink finances frozen
Elon Musk railed against Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday and Thursday after the court ordered X to appoint a legal representative in the country. De Moraes and Musk ...
News Brazil » Social: In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship
DJ Bola is a social entrepreneur born in Jardim Ângela, a poor neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil, considered in the 1990s to be one of the most dangerous places in the world. When he was 18 years old, ...