"Founded in 2016, the news operation of BuzzFeed News of Brazil will come to its end on Aug. 31. The other areas of BuzzFeed will continue normally. On this day, Aug. 31, 2020, BuzzFeed News will stop the production of its news product in Brazil, in Portuguese. It was the end of that fruitful journey […]
"The UN criticized the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's and other leaders' behavior in relation to the press. In an conference this Friday, when the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was specifically asked about the behavior of the Brazilian president, he answered sending a message to the president of the country and other leaders that […]
“A survey regarding the open records request made via the Access Law and which were denied - carried out by Transparência Brasil at the request of Painel [a column in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper] - shows that the argument that the request is 'generic' to not grant data has turned into an increasing trend […]
"Agência Lupa has been a target of a coordinated disinformation campaign with homophobic prejudices on social media. In a post that circulated Aug. 20, 2020, Gilberto Scofield Jr., director of strategy and business of Lupa since May 2019, and his spouse Rodrigo de Mello, a real estate agent, were falsely named as the founders of […]
"According to a survey by the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), there were 3,930 journalists that work under a formal contract for newsrooms, in 16 unions in the country, who had their salaries and work hours reduced during the pandemic. Another 81 journalists had their work contracts suspended and 205 were laid off." Read original […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF - from French Reporters sans frontières) publishes the second part of a series of publications on press freedom in Brazil in 2020 and exposes the structure that drives a network of attacks, led by President Bolsonaro, who systematically encourages hostility and society's distrust of the press. " Read the original article […]
"Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday suspended a network of social media accounts it said were used to spread divisive political messages online by employees of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and two of his sons." Read original article
“The decision of the Brazilian government to omit the general balance of deaths of COVID-19 as of this Saturday (6th) places the country alongside Venezuela or the most closed regime in the world, North Korea, in the transparency management of pandemic statistics.” Read original article (Portuguese)
"Wilson Acosta Marques, alleged material author in the murder of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina and his assistant Antonia Almada, which occurred in October 2014, was captured by Brazilian authorities in the state of Mato Grosso, about 1,000 kilometers from Amambay, as confirmed by Interpol Paraguay...The man detained was the one who wielded and fired the […]