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Brazil: Bolsonaro Attacks Newspaper over Reports of Misinformation Campaign

HeadlineOct 31, 2018

In Brazil, far-right leader and President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has announced he wants Sérgio Moro, the judge who convicted former President Lula da Silva of corruption, to join his government as justice minister when Bolsonaro takes office on New Year’s Day. Bolsonaro also accused a São Paulo daily newspaper of publishing “fake news.”

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro: “Almost all the fake news that was said about me came from the daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, including their last story, where they said I had hired companies outside of Brazil to create a campaign of lies against the Workers’ Party. That’s a big lie. Once again, fake news from the São Paulo newspaper, sadly.”

This comes as witnesses are sharing accounts of violence in the immediate aftermath of Bolsonaro’s victory, including a police attack on Workers’ Party supporters in the city of Salvador da Bahia minutes after Bolsonaro’s victory was announced. Video shows a young woman bleeding profusely from the head after she was struck by a police baton at a peaceful protest. Later in the broadcast, we’ll go to São Paulo to speak with journalist Bruno Torturra about the rise of Bolsonaro.

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