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Public servants work to fuel Bolsonaro's 'personal account' on social media

  • Source: Abraji
  • November 4, 2021

"The Prosecutor General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, spoke out on Oct. 28, 2021 against the campaign of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) which asks for President Jair Bolsonaro to unblock 65 journalists on Twitter. Aras claims that Bolsonaro's posts on the social network 'have no official character.' However, four advisors from the Executive branch collaborate to 'prepare strategies' for disseminating content to Bolsonaro's social networks.

According to Abraji's daily monitoring since September 2020, Bolsonaro is the elected politician who most bans press professionals from his Twitter account - 79 of 296 recorded cases until Nov. 3, 2021. The process in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) is awaiting decision by Minister Carmen Lúcia."

 

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