In question for “crimes against humanity” for its management of COVID-19 in a parliamentary report adopted Tuesday, the extreme right president continues to be the voice of “Fake News”. YouTube suspended Monday, and for a week, the activities of the Head of State’s video chain.
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Does Jair Bolsonaro become deprived of his favorite communication tool? Tuesday, October 26, a group of senators officially demanded the suspension of the accounts owned by the highly controversial President of the country on social networks. A first in the digital and political history of the young Brazilian republic.
Transmitted to justice, the application emanates from the Parliamentary Commission (ICC) on the management of the Pandemic of Covid-19, which put to the vote and approved, Tuesday, the thick report written on the subject , six months fruit of meticulous investigations. It comes especially as a result of a new controversy, triggered by Jair Bolsonaro on October 21st.
That day, in his usual weekly live, broadcast every Thursday evening on social networks, the president is the voice of a gross “Fake News”, suggesting that people vaccinated against CVIV-19 Develop the AIDS virus “much faster than expected”. Without citing its exact source, the latter asserts to rely on supposed official data from the British authorities. “I want to transmit information,” he says.
Not the first slip
The tolert is general. The head of state is immediately denied by the British government and members of the medical community. The video is quickly removed from Instagram and Facebook platforms. YouTube goes further, suspending Monday, and for a week, the activities of Mr. Bolsonaro’s video chain.
The sulphurous president is not at his first slippage. Since April, according to a count done by the Journal O Globo, YouTube would have removed at least 33 videos posted by it. In case of new serious offenses, Jair Bolsonaro could even see his video chain (followed by 3.5 million surfers) permanently closed.
The incident naturally triggered the fury of the ICC. In addition to the suspension of the President on Social Networks, it requires a public retraction “on a national channel”, under pain of a fine of 50 000 Reais (7,700 euros) per day and calls for the sending to the Brazilian justice by Google, Facebook and Twitter of all the data, content and access information of the head of state since April 2020.
“A recidivist offender”
For senators, it is about ensuring the “protection of the Brazilian population”. “We have a recidivist offender in the presidency of the Republic!” In the social networks, the left-handed senator Randolfe Rodrigues, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Committee denouncing a “false and absurd of Bolsonaro” exit ” .
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