The slippery slope and insanity of disinformation which we wrote about previously. Now even presidents in Brazil will be nullified and disqualified if they ever said something “false” on the internet. Anything can be labeled as false. Saying “I believe broccoli tastes bad.” Welp, the judges can say “That is false information, according to science and whatever, broccoli tastes good and is consumed by many people in the world!” Yes folks, the idea of “disinformation, misinformation, false, fake news” is total insanity but hey welcome to 2022!
President Jair Bolsonaro once again criticized ministers Alexandre de Moraes, Luís Roberto Barroso and Edson Fachin, the latter also president of the Superior Electoral Court. “The population just going to the streets does not raise awareness, for example, Moraes, Fachin, Barroso. It does not sensitize these people. They are intent on putting the left back in power. Minister Fachin himself was the rapporteur of the process that released Lula. It makes no sense for him to be at the head of the TSE and to have adopted the conduct he has been adopting”, complained the Chief Executive in an interview.
“A few days ago, Minister Fachin met with ambassadors from 75 countries. The message that was given, not explicitly, is that the President of the Republic attacks the democratic electoral system and does not want to recognize Lula’s possible victory at the polls. That is, he has already taken sides, he should declare himself a suspect. He could not be at the forefront of this electoral process,” he said. According to him, the magistrates “abuse” and want to undermine his candidacy to facilitate the return of the PT.
“I believe that public opinion already knows what is happening in Brazil. Being at the forefront of this, I strengthen myself to fight more and more so that our freedom is really respected and not the will of two or three people here in Brasilia. But in part these people also abuse and want to undermine our candidacy to facilitate the other side. What they do with right-wing people, they don’t do with left-wing people,” he added. “These three can do a lot, but they can’t do everything. From the other side, it seems to have no limits”, she said, adding that “there are more and more sugaring the pill for Lula to win the elections”.
“If you analyze the facts of the last two years, you see that a part of the Judiciary is focused on undermining freedom of expression. , said during the interview. The parliamentarian is federal deputy Alexandre Silveira (PTB-RJ), convicted by the STF for attacks on democracy and pardoned by Bolsonaro.
Asked whether or not to accept the result of this year’s elections, the president again questioned the election and said that the election cannot be ended “under the cloak of mistrust, so that the losing side is outraged”, and characterized the ministers as irresponsible. “They know my potential and what the people are thinking. We want to have clean elections and there is still time to have clean elections. We cannot end the election under the cloak of mistrust, so that the losing side is outraged. That can’t happen there. It is irresponsible for these three ministers of the TSE to carry out this process that is there without discussing with the technical team of the CGU, the AGU, the Armed Forces, which they do not want to discuss.”
“If our electoral system is so good, I ask you: Japan, South Korea, France, England, does anyone use it? Not. Only Brazil, Bangladesh and Bhutan. It’s a sign that there’s something weird in there. We cannot hold elections with all this suspicion ahead of us, and we can resolve it until then with these suggestions from the Armed Forces”, he said.
Yesterday, Bolsonaro received a visit from the world vice president of the Telegram app, Ilya Perekopsky, and the platform’s legal representative in Brazil, Alan Thomaz, at Palácio do Planalto. The meeting was not on the Chief Executive’s agenda. “A great conversation about the sacred freedom of expression, democracy and compliance with the Federal Constitution”, wrote the president on social media. He also recalled that yesterday was the Freedom of the Press Day in Brazil.
The meeting of the app’s representatives with Bolsonaro took place a day after they were at the TSE in a meeting with Fachin. On the occasion, they presented unprecedented initiatives to combat disinformation in this year’s elections. Perekopsky explained to Fachin that the platform is exclusively adopting the monitoring of content published in user groups in Brazil. According to him, this is the first time that the platform has carried out this monitoring and, if the experience works, it will be implemented in other countries.
Telegram, specifically, symbolizes the middle of an arm wrestling of social networks with the Judiciary and Executive. This is because the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the TSE started to have a more incisive conduct on the false information that has been disseminated in the country through digital platforms. After much insistence – with application blocks in Brazil – Telegram was the last to formalize a cooperation agreement with the electoral court.
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