Influencer Thiago dos Reis, 36, is one of the main voices in favor of the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on social media. The YouTuber has amassed 1 billion views on YouTube and has 1.5 million subscribers on his main channel on the Plantão Brasil platform, which has doubled in size since the 2022 elections.
OR Estadao revealed this Monday, the 10th, that meetings are being held in the Palácio do Planalto on the agenda with the “cabinet of audacity”, a group made up of members of the Secretariat for Social Communication (Secom) of the Presidency of the Republic, of National PT and the leaders of the acronym of Congress, which activates government influencers to define the topics to be explored online. Thiago denied receiving information from inside the Palácio do Planalto and stated that he did not earn money from the government.
In the last five years the YouTuber has published 9.8 thousand contents. The videos often feature sensational editing in cover photos, distorted facts, and false or out-of-context titles.
The YouTuber, who mainly targets the Bolsonaro family, has already claimed, for example, that the entrepreneur Luciano Hang killed his mother during the Covid-19 pandemic (she died after being hospitalized due to the disease) and that his ex -First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro bought a R$20,000 shoe with public money in Dubai.
Affiliated with the PT since 2017, the YouTuber tried to run for a federal seat in Sao Paulo in 2022, but the candidacy was unsuccessful. In court he is the target of 15 lawsuits filed since 2022 by political opponents, entrepreneurs and public employees, who declare themselves victims of slander and defamation and ask, in total, 447 thousand Brazilian reals in compensation for moral damages.
The court has also been trying to locate him for two years to serve a prison sentence ordered in a lawsuit brought by his own father, who claims he was abandoned by his children after being banned for psychiatric and alcohol problems. Thiago has not been located by the courts. On social media, he claims that he is spending time in Mexico, where he moved to escape “threats from the Bolsonarists.”
In his asset declaration in the 2022 election campaign, he declared having assets of R$1.2 million, including an apartment outside the country. Three and a half years earlier, Thiago had declared to the Revenue Agency an income of R $ 2.5 thousand per capita per month and no assets in his name.
In addition to Plantão Brasil’s main YouTube account, Thiago manages three other channels on the platform with over 127 million views. The influencer also works on X (formerly Twitter), where he has more than 412 thousand followers, and on other social networks and platforms, such as Tik Tok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Wanted by Estadaohe answered the questions through a video published on Monday 4th on his YouTube channel. “I complain almost every day that there is no left-wing organization. I don’t receive any guidance. I even wish the government had a government. influencer network In a year and a half I attended two meetings with government figures, in which they only spoke good of the government and that’s it,” said the YouTuber, who denied receiving money and information from Palácio do Planalto.
Source: Terra
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