In a statement this Wednesday (5), Senator Carlos Portinho (PLRJ) stressed that following the decision of the Minister of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Paulo, the National Association of Newspapers (ANJ) expressed its support for the newspaper Gazeta do Povo habe de Tarso Sanseverino, who, according to Portinho, removed a post from the newspaper’s Twitter profile.
The senator explained that the Post reported that Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega cut the signal of the CNN news channel in the country and mentioned former President Lula’s support for Ortega. For him, the censorship of the newspaper Gazeta do Povo is “unacceptable”. There is a need to protect democracy from “such acts of the TSE,” he said.
— The Internet is free territory. The Brazilian people do not need to be protected by the state; He must learn and have the discernment to distinguish what is fake news from what is true. Worse in this case where it’s true. What made the TSE censor the Gazeta do Povo newspaper, a traditional newspaper in our country, for publishing a political and journalistic event that took place in Nicaragua? he asked.
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Senate Minority Leader Jean Paul Prates (PTRN) dismissed Senator Portinho’s statements and denied there had been censorship.
“Everything is mixed up in this discussion. There is a decision by the TSE which is very clear that several posts are relaying messages, including original messages time and time again, and certain vehicles are exaggerating in building stairs just for the echo. And there was a perfectly plausible complaint from the coalition, which was welcomed by the Brazilian judiciary,” said Jean Paul.
Agência Senado (Reproduction authorized by reference to Agência Senado)