U.S. Tech Companies Gain Influence Over Regulations in Brazil

America’s Big Tech companies, which have been aggressively courting President Trump, suddenly have new leverage in Brazil’s halls of power. Against a backdrop of a 50 percent tax on key Brazilian products, the firms are being welcomed to meetings with Brazilian officials and justices of the Supreme Court, as new regulation is being shaped on everything from online speech to artificial intelligence, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.