
FILE PHOTO: Cables are pictured in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Meta Platforms Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google appeared before Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday to defend a law that says internet companies are not responsible for content that users post unless the companies are subject to a court order.
The companies are appealing a 2017 lawsuit by a Brazilian woman who wanted Facebook to remove a profile and sued the company for compensation.
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