Brazil: Attorney General of the Union and Office of the Solicitor General issued interim ruling in investigation into Meta over child protection violations through AI chatbots

On 15 August 2025, the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) and the Office of the Solicitor General of the Union (PGU) issued an extrajudicial notice (NUP 00170.003528/2025-45) to Meta Platforms, which operates Instagram and Facebook. The notice was based on Article 131 of the Federal Constitution, Complementary Law No. 73/1993, the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (Law No. 8.069/1990), Article 217-A of the Penal Code, and the Meta Community Standards. It orders the immediate removal of chatbots created with the Meta AI Studio tool that use child-like language in erotic contexts. Examples include the profiles “Bebezinha”, “Minha Novinha” and “Safadinha”. Meta must also, within 72 hours, present the measures it has adopted to prevent children and adolescents from accessing sexual or erotic content on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The AGU and PGU argue that these chatbots violate the principle of full protection of children and adolescents established in Article 227 of the Federal Constitution. They also cite the Federal Supreme Court’s decision on the partial unconstitutionality of Article 19 of the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, which clarified the liability of internet application providers.