A month later, there is a plan to regulate social media in Mexico on the table. In record-breaking speed, Ricardo Monreal, the leader of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) in the upper house of Mexico’s legislature, has proposed a draft bill to curb the power of social media platforms. For example, social networks would be required to register with the IFT as soon as they had a million users. Possible distraction strategyLevy said that the first reactions to the draft bill had been negative and that it had little chance of passing. “I fear that the initiative has less to do with the control of social networks than with the goal of sabotaging the IFT,” she said.

Source: Indian Express February 11, 2021 08:55 UTC