Brazil is facing a critical moment in regulating social media platforms. Social media companies grew quickly by taking advantage of relaxed consumer regulations, avoiding risks, acquiring competitors, and prioritizing scale over security. These companies also rely on third-party sources for data, leading to a vast and complex data infrastructure on the internet that has been a space for disinformation at scale and hate speech for years, endangering countless lives and democracy itself. The recent attacks on children in schools have highlighted the urgent need for accountability. Unfortunately, platforms have consistently forfeited people’s safety over profits, as evidenced by the recent layoffs of employees overseeing critical departments such as trust and safety, integrity, ethics, and content moderation. Read the letter.