Now composing the opposition in the Chamber, the Bolsonarist deputies have appointed in their offices officials responsible for profiles already used to spread lies and coup contents on the net.
- to the facts identified 30 servers that manage pages or channels, for a total of 1.1 million followers, in which in the last eight months they have published false information or content that questions the election result;
- These employees are assigned to the offices of 19 federal, PL and Republican congressmen, representing 14 states;
- In February, the total cost of salaries for these employees was R $ 169,000;
- recurring misinformerfederal deputy Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO) named the largest number of employees with this profile: four of his secretaries have already published misleading or fraudulent content;
- Deputies Lieutenant Colonel Zucco (Republicanos-RS), Mário Frias (PL-SP) and General Girão (PL-RN) each employed three servants who have already spread lies on the networks.
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With 140,000 followers on Instagram, Givanildo José da Silva Santos – or Givanildo Conservador, as he is known online – was nominated by MP Clarissa Tércio (PL-PE). On the Northeastern Conservative page, he uses lies to attack the Lula government (PT) and defend the management of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Earlier this year, for example, Santos shared a post saying that malnourished Yanomami in Roraima would be Venezuelanswhich is false.
Disinformation.
In an Instagram post, the Nordestino Conservador page spread the lie that the malnourished Yanomami were Venezuelans (Reproduction)
The same lie was shared by Dárcio Bracarense, appointed to the position of Deputy Coronel Meira (PL-PE) with a gross salary of R$ 13,307.06. Co-founder of the Nas Ruas movement, who increased popularity by Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) at the time of the demonstrations for the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff (PT), has more than 35,000 followers on Instagram and a YouTube channel with around 5,000 subscribers.
Teobaldo de Queiroz Gomes Vieira, chosen to assist Gustavo Gayer with a salary of R$ 4,006.61, used the networks to raise suspicions about the veracity of President Lula’s inauguration. reply a piece of disinformation denied by to the facts in January Vieira bet on a conspiracy theory suggesting that both the presidential sash and the inaugural book were fakes.
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Appointed respectively by Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) and Junio Amaral (PL-MG), Henrique Cândido Freitas (gross salary of R$ 6,466.64) and Breno Alves Fonseca (gross salary of R$ 3,015.57) also have incited their followers to distrust the fairness of the election results.
In an Instagram post on Jan. 10, Freitas shared a video of the British portal MW3.News which claims that Lula was elevated to the presidency through electoral fraud and that the minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Moraes is linked to organized crime. None of this is true.
Fonseca, on the other hand, suggested to his almost 250,000 Instagram followers that President Lula would not have had 60 million votes at the polls and that the fact that some equipment recorded 100% of the votes for the PT would be an indication of fraud. As shown by to the facts, regional courts clarified that these are isolated cases and do not prove the occurrence of irregularities.
Scam publications. In addition to spreading lies on the networks, officials appointed by Bolsonarist deputies have also participated in or supported coup acts against the 2022 election result.
Close to members of the former government, the lawyer Bruno André Ferreira Costa de Jesus, who today receives R$ 12,792.66 as secretary of the deputy Mário Frias (PL-SP), published a video call of protesters in Praça on January 8 dos Tres Poderes. “The appeals of the population demonstrating right now in Brasilia is for more people to join the movement,” he wrote to his 92,000 followers.
Defense of protesters.
The Os Bastidores de Brasilia page compared the measures taken after the terrorist acts of January 8 with Nazi methods
Another supporter of the coup demonstrations appointed to the post of parliamentary secretary is the Major of the Air Force Reserve Emílio Kerber Filho, administrator of the Os Bastidores de Brasília page. Assigned to the office of Lieutenant Colonel Zucco (Republicanos-RS), Kerber Filho last year broadcast live interviews with some of those who had camped out in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia to demand the annulment of the elections. After the January 8 demonstrations, he came to the defense of the demonstrators and linked the arrests to Nazi methods.
Other side. OR to the facts contacted MPs’ offices questioning the choice of servers that had already posted disinformation. The offices of MPs Coronel Meira, Carlos Jordy, Diego Garcia, Julia Zanatta and Lieutenant Coronel Zucco have specified that the publications made by the employees of their offices have no bearing on their parliamentary activity.
The other offices have not replied at the time of publication of this report.
Source: Terra
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