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Débora Medeiros

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Brazilian journalist, currently studying Media and Political Communication at the Free University of Berlin. I'm passionate about educational broadcasting. Currently doing research on citizen media and environmental reporting. On Twitter, I'm @debmedeiros. I also write and translate for Global Voices in Portuguese and Global Voices in German.

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1 March 2013

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Brazilian Family Loses Home to the World Cup

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In this article by Agência Pública, we meet another Brazilian affected by preparations for the 2014 World Cup. This time, it's Elisângela, whose Rio de Janeiro home was demolished without prior notice, leaving her and her daughter homeless.

13 September 2008

Brazil: Justice aims at Twitter and hits innocent bloggers

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If the Brazilian Electoral Justice is not quite sure about what the Internet is, their latest blunder proves that Twitter is completely alien to them. When trying to take down a fake mayoral candidate's profile on the popular network, they managed to take offline a blog that had nothing to do with the story. Mind you: They could have taken down the whole Twitter website instead.

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