Moraes orders reactivation of Brazilian congressman Nikolas Ferreira’s social networks

Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), ordered on Thursday, 26, the reactivation of the social networks of federal deputy-elect Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG).

The decision, which covers Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Tik Tok, Twitter, and YouTube profiles, comes 15 days after the accounts were blocked.

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However, the release happens under certain conditions.

Nikolas cannot publish, promote, replicate, or ‘share false’ content about the electoral process under penalty of a daily fine of R$10,000 (US$2,000).

What is false content is determined by de Moraes, the country’s self-appointed censorship czar.

Moraes considered in the case of Ferreira, the same understanding applied to Senator Alan Rick (Union Brazil), who had his accounts on social networks released, also with conditions, after a request from the president of the National Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco.

For Justice, in both cases, there was “the cessation of disclosure of content coated with illegality and tending to transgress the integrity of the electoral process and to encourage the achievement of antidemocratic acts, and viable the reactivation of their profiles, keeping, however,, the removal of irregular posts by him broadcast.

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