Brazil Judge Restores 3.4M-Member Lula WhatsApp Channel
- Judge Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva provisionally restored the pro-Lula WhatsApp channel “Exército do Lula” after Brazil’s electoral court ordered its suspension.
- Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign sought the suspension, alleging that the channel spread disinformation about welfare payments and pensions.
- The full electoral court must decide whether the channel remains open before Brazil’s 25 October presidential runoff.
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The Supreme Electoral Tribunal orders the closure of a whatsapp channel favorable to the president, after Bolsonaro complained that he was spreading false news against him.
JN: Government foresees a loss of two million euros. State of São Paulo: Rapporteur on the TSE maintains the channel ‘Army of Lula' in WhatsApp.
The president of the High Electoral Court was in contrast to the procedure already adopted by the minister Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva, broker of the organ
The TSE suspended Lula's propaganda associating Flávio Bolsonaro with the Master and Alfredo Gaspar case for a crime of rape filed for lack of evidence.
"We're not going to accept undue interference," says Paulista's acting president.
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