Government cites Pix controversy and asks Supreme Court to require platforms to monitor AI
- Rafaela Campos da Silva
- Jul 31
- 1 min read
Veja - May, 22 2025
The Office of the Attorney General (AGU) has submitted a request to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) asking that, when ruling on the lawsuits regarding social media platform responsibility, the Court include in its final decision the obligation for platforms to also monitor the misuse of artificial intelligence tools.
To justify the request, Attorney General Jorge Messias referred to misinformation spread during the Pix controversy earlier this year. “The fraudulent ads analyzed offered both real and fictitious government programs, impersonating pages of public or private institutions through the manipulation of political leaders’ images using Artificial Intelligence (AI), enabling the alteration of speech or the decontextualization of old news reports to legitimize scams,” the AGU stated in its filing.
The AGU also cited research by the Internet and Social Media Studies Lab at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Netlab-UFRJ), which identified “1,770 fraudulent ads promoting scams and false information about receivable funds for the public and other topics related to new rules on Pix transaction data reporting to the Federal Revenue Service,” between January 10 and 21 of this year, when the Pix controversy dominated social media. Among the deepfake targets were Finance Minister Fernando Haddad and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
