Students are identified for threatening attacks on schools and are taken to the police station in Rio

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes (PSD), reported this Thursday afternoon (13) that two students from the municipal network were taken to the police station for encouraging, in false profiles on social networks, new acts of violence in schools. This action is part of a task force made up of the State Police and the Justice ministryorganized after the repercussions of recent criminal attacks in São Paulo and Santa Catarina.

In addition to monitoring on social networks, the intelligence scheme also has the support of Municipal Secretary of Education (SME), through which they receive threat notifications about school environments. This procedure is part of a protocol adopted in the Rio de Janeiro education network to prevent this type of violence, which instructs that threats to any member of the schools be notified to the civil police and to Cyber ​​Operations Laboratory (CiberLab) from the Directorate of Integrated Intelligence Operations of the Ministry of Justice.

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Rio City Hall, with state security forces, intercepted threats of violence made by 2 students from the municipal network. They were taken to the police station. Since the attacks in Blumenau and São Paulo, we have created a task force with Civil and Military Police and Min da…

— Eduardo Paes (@eduardopaes) April 13, 2023

_{Communiqué from Mayor Eduardo Paes on the interception of students with fake profiles on social networks. Playback/Twitter/@eduardopaes}

Despite being an isolated action, the subject has been treated with attention throughout the country since the death of four children, as a result of a criminal act that took place on the 5th, in a daycare center located in Blumenal (SC). Other states in Brazil have also adopted measures with the aim of protecting the school environment, such as the “School Protection“, integrated by Military Police of Minas Gerais (PMMG) and the state education nucleus. The operation is focused on periodic visits to educational institutions in all cities in Minas Gerais, according to the declaration of Captain Araújoof Center for Police Journalism (CJP)published on the portal g1.

Social networks in the focus of investigations

The focus of research on social networks is due to publications made especially in the twitter It is TikTok, in which students promote attacks on schools, in a kind of challenge. Regarding these actions, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dinomanifested itself by asking for the removal of content that incites attacks on schools and, last Wednesday (12), Dino announced an ordinance that includes rules such as the obligation of social networks to comply with police requests, carry out a risk analysis systems, adopt an active moderation of content and inform the Ministry of Justice which policies are adopted in relation to the recommendation algorithm.

_{Social Networking Applications (Photo: Thomas Ulrich/Pixabay)}

According to Dino, in an interview shown on the program Studio I (Globo News)the representatives of the networks allege that the contents are produced by third parties, therefore they do not recognize the responsibility of the companies in the security context presented by the Minister.

Featured Photo: Education disclosure logo of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Playback: City Hall of Rio