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Brazilian court bans government communications official from election posts
Original: antonio tabet
Brazil's electoral court has a majority to uphold restrictions on posts by Antonio Tabet, the coordinator of the Planalto's communications office (Secom), after Flávio Bolsonaro asked the TRE-DF to bar him from publishing about elections on social media. The case involved a Tabet post linking the senator to Our Lady of the apparitions, which the TSE judged to be fake news. Prosecutor Paulo Mendonça changed his vote to allow the post, and commentators called it a defeat for broad censorship efforts. Tabet must now refrain from election-related posts.
Why now: The electoral court's ruling restricting a senior government official's social media activity is seen as a major precedent in Brazil's election season, with debate over alleged censorship involving Mendonça.
Antonio TabetTSEFlávio BolsonaroPaulo MendonçaSecom
Evidence
- TSE forma maioria para vetar posts que ligam Flávio Bolsonaro a Nossa Senhora; alcance gera impasse · Terra
- Leonardo Sakamoto: Decisão do TSE é derrota para a 'censura no atacado' aplicada por Mendonça · UOL Notícias
- Análise: Mendonça recua sobre post de Tabet para evitar derrota no TSE · CNN Brasil
- TSE tem maioria para derrubar posts sobre fake news de Nossa Senhora · CNN Brasil
- Mendonça muda voto e libera post de Tabet sobre Nossa Senhora · UOL Notícias
- Justiça proíbe coordenador da Secom de Lula de fazer posts sobre eleições nas redes sociais · Estadão
- Flávio Bolsonaro pede, e TRE-DF proíbe que coordenador da Secom do Planalto faça posts sobre eleições · G1
- Justiça proíbe funcionário da Secom de publicar sobre eleição · Poder360
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