Brazil Court Orders Removal of Fake Posts Amid Patron Saint Election Row
- On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Supreme Court president Edson Fachin postponed the Nossa Senhora case, leaving conflicting rulings by Justices Flávio Dino and Luiz Fux off the agenda without a new review date.
- Justice André Mendonça, the Superior Electoral Court vice-president, ordered the removal of over 2,000 posts on September 25, 2026, that falsely claimed Flávio Bolsonaro planned to strip the title of patron saint from Our Lady of Aparecida.
- The seven-member TSE bench began an online session on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, to decide whether to confirm the takedown orders, with Justice Mendonça casting the first vote to uphold his ruling.
- "Undue overlap of jurisdiction" by Supreme Court justices prompted TSE president Kassio Nunes Marques to complain to Fachin on Monday, illustrating internal friction as the court polices misinformation before the vote.
- With the presidential election approaching on Sunday, October 4, 2026, the court's virtual session concludes today, determining whether the disputed posts remain offline during the final days of the campaign.
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Brazil court orders removal of fake posts amid patron saint election row
Rumors, accusations and fierce denials about the fate of the saint have dominated the final stretch of campaigning before Sunday's election, laying bare divisions between Catholics and Evangelicals in the deeply religious nation. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is facing a too-close-to-call election race against senator Bolsonaro, and both sides have clung to last-minute controversies in a bid to win over crucial undecided voters. T…
TSE is judging this Wednesday (30/9), in virtual plenary, whether or not it confirms the decision of Minister André Mendonça who determined the exclusion of posts that associated Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) to a project to withdraw the title of Nossa Senhora Aparecida de Padroeira do Brasil. Follow the vote.
The agenda of this Wednesday's session of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) follows without the inclusion of the judgment on the withdrawal of publications related to Our Lady Aparecida from the social networks. The Secretary of Communication of the Court informed this Tuesday that the forecast is that the schedule remains as it is, without the inclusion of the case sent to the face plenary by Minister Flávio Dino. There was an expectation that th…
No date foreseen for the analysis of the cases
War of liminars between André Mendonça, Flávio Dino and Luiz Fux once again raised tension in court
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