"Brazil: Operation Safe Schools targets 270 Twitter accounts", 10 April 2023

...Brazil's Justice Ministry (MJSP) requested the deletion of 270 Twitter accounts conveying hashtags related to attacks against schools nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported Sunday.

The news service also explained that hashtags are keywords or terms associated with any information or discussion that one wishes to index explicitly in applications such as Twitter and Facebook, preceded by the symbol (#).

According to the MJSP, both content and authors are under investigation, and search warrants were also served, resulting in the seizure of seven weapons. A suspect was arrested. Authorities also requested the Tik Tok platform remove two accounts that were transmitting content that incited fear in families.

...Several preventive and repressive actions were taken against attacks in schools all over Brazil, among them the search for profiles on social networks with posts related to crimes against life and hate speech...

Since last Wednesday's episode in a school in Blumenau (SC), in which four children died and at least five were injured, the MJSP's Cyber Operations Laboratory has supported the Interministerial Working Group in gathering information about possible threats to schools, by monitoring social networks. Representatives of the area participated in the first meeting of the WG held on Thursday at the Ministry of Education (MEC).

...Based on the growing cases of violence in schools in Brazil, Ciberlab has also acted in preventive actions against Brazilian schools and daycare centers, producing reports that are forwarded to state police forces all over the country...