• The president of the #SupremeCourt (#STF) said he accepts an invitation from #Bolsonaro to meet with him this week to discuss a national plan to fight the #pandemic. Although the Brazilian states are not as independent to take decisions on their own as are the American states, the STF ruled early on that the measures would be up to the states. The chairs of the #Congress and the #Senate, and some governors and mayors are also expected to attend this meeting. #COVID
• During #Bolsonaro's daily morning stop to talk to supporters on his way to office, he said, “WHAT HAVE I BEEN SAYING? CHAOS IS COMING. HUNGER WILL TAKE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE NEVER EXPECTED WE WOULD. SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS. [...] WHERE ARE WE GOING TO END UP? I WONDER IF THE GOV'T WILL HAVE TO TAKE SOME DECISION BEFORE THAT HAPPENS. IS THE POPULATION READY FOR SOME HARSH MEASURE FROM THE GOV'T REGARDING THIS ISSUE? WHAT DO I MEAN BY HARSH? TO GUARANTEE PEOPLE'S FREEDOM, TO GIVE BACK TO THE PEOPLE THEIR RIGHT TO WORK.”
• The Prosecutors Office along with the State Fiscal Court signed a document asking for the temporary removal of President #Bolsonaro's power over decisions related to the fight against the #pandemic, and not only the president's, but also the ministers of health's, of state's, of economy's, and others the Fiscal Court views as to have contributed to the chaos caused by the pandemic. In the document, the Vice-President #HamiltonMourao is asked to occupy Bolsonaro's position. Everything about this document is absurd, and it shows, or confirms, something more important than the fact that the deep state is alive and kicking, which is the fact that the vice-president is not on Bolsonaro's side. #mourao
• The conservative movement in Brazil has been building a self-damaging relationship with #CNN. #CNNBrasil started its operations during the conservative wave, and since then they have opted for showing little to no bias, but TBB believes this has been a tactic to gain popularity. It never made sense to us that CNN Brazil would have a very different approach to politics compared to CNN International and to CNN in the #UnitedStates, which are actively working against conservatives, against the right. Proof of this self-damaging relationship was recently shown in one of #LucianoHulk's tweet. Hulk is widely famous for his TV shows, has been a strong critic of the #Bolsonaro administration, and considers running for president in 2022. He wrote in his tweet, “BRAZIL WAS ALWAYS ADMIRED BY THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THE HAPPINESS OF ITS PEOPLE. TODAY WE ARE SCARING. HOW SAD! CNN AMERICA SEES US AS A THREAT, A COUNTRY GOING AGAINST PROGRESS WITH A GOV'T THAT HAS UNDERESTIMATED SCIENCE AND VACCINE.” If a Brazilian thinks CNN Brazil is reasonably unbiased, how trustful will any other CNN's opinion be for this person? #conservatives #liberals #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation

Another action of malice from some of the mainstream news outlets was saying that a senator caught hiding money between his buttocks in #Roraima was the vice-leader of the gov't in the #Senate.

Yes, he was the vice-leader, but he was not a direct nomination. He was chosen to be the vice-leader by a party that happens to support the president, but #Bolsonaro had no role in choosing him.

AND THE #SUPREMECOURT'S (#STF'S) POLEMIC PUNISHMENT One of the judge-ministers punished the senator with a 90-day suspension and this decision outraged many congresspeople and senators, and was widely criticized. The reason is that the judge-minister didn't wait for the regular proceedings to take place, which included the #Senate itself to take some action.

The judge-minister's decision has been seen as a disrespect for the separation of powers and as a virtue-signaling act; an unconstitutional act.

#brazil #jairbolsonaro #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation

The Electoral #SupremeCourt (#TSE) announced on #Twitter three partnerships to help them fight #fakenews, #misinformation, and #disinformation with the goal of preventing those from influencing the elections.

The partnership were made with #Google, #TikTok, and Twitter. Fact-checkers are also helping the TSE. Google and Twitter have long been accused in #Brazil, in the #UnitedStates, and in other countries of manipulating search results, and doing shadowbanning and censoring. TikTok has been in hot waters with the US for fear of spying on Americans, and fact-checkers are criticized also here and everywhere for not being accountable to anyone else (who fact-checks the fact-checkers).

TSE is urging people to denounce users who share news with others, and says that one shouldn't forward a post if:

1. You don't totally trust the sender;
2. You don't find the source of the information;
3. You can't distinguish an opinion from a reporting;
4. You are not sure the news is true.

WHAT TSE IS (DELIBERATLY?) MISSING

1. An average person doesn't have all the tools and/or time to go after knowing if a piece of news is a 100% true. And if they find the source, how do they know the source is true? If a TSE fack-checker says it's true, who can prove the fact-checker is true?

2. Many stories that eventually come out to be true were one day only unproven suspicions, and as more and more people talked about it, people with more capacity (tools and time) to investigate it, like journalists, dug deeper, finding superficial evidence, then they denounced it, and then it was investigated by the police, finally finding hard evidence. So, by discouraging people from being open about their suspicion, a lot of stories may never come to light.

It doesn't stop there. TSE will receive online voting project ideas from 29 technology companies. Three Brazilian cities are going to carry out a simulation test already in the 2020 elections. The trust in the electronic voting machine is already low, even though they work offline, and TSE is considering carrying out votes through the internet?

Why is TSE doing everything contrary to common sense?

The cofounder of the Brazilian fact-checker #AosFatos, #TaiNalon, is quoted in an article written on #UOL as stating:

“In democracies still not totally consolidated as is #Brazil, which is going through a moment of high polarization and of institutional fragility, there is a strong lack of trust in institutions and in authorities. [...] We won't be able to be a well-informed society for as long as those in positions of total or partial authority (judges, scientists, teachers, the press) are attacked because of their political agendas.”

In other words, she implies that judges, scientists, teachers, and the press are unfairly distrusted (“attacked”) because they have a political agenda. She implies that they should be believed just because of their titles, not their ideological position.

Now, who will the people believe in if there is not a consensus among judges, scientists, teachers, and the press? Who's going to decide which group of judges, scientists, teachers, and of the press we should believe in?

#fakenews #misinformation #disinformation

A news media outlet called #VEJA, known for its leftwing position, posting #fakenews and #misinformation more often than not, posted an article saying that the biggest criminal faction in #Rio, #ComandoVermelho, has been sheltering mercenaries with military experience from #Africa and #EastEurope to help train CV members in #Brazil.

The article says CV has over 5,000 rifles, 30,000 members, currently controls most of the drug business, and has dangerously grown in the neighboring states of #Acre (which borders #Bolivia and #Peru) and #Amazonas (#Colombia, #Peru, and #Venezuela).

One controversial thing about this article is the fact that it was based on information provided in a #WhatsApp group, and this group exposed personal information from an American, claiming that he's been involved in training CV members. He posted a video saying he's not doing that, that he's married to a Brazilian, also that he filed a report at the police, and finally he made an appeal to #Bolsonaro by offering military and #lawenforcement personnel training for free.

#riodejaneiro #cvermelho #unitedstates #americans #drugs