Bolsonaro asks STF to deny PGR request on follower data

Investigation

The ex-president’s defense lawyers claim that the request for a list with data on followers is “political-ideological intimidation”

Lawyers for Jair Bolsonaro (PL) request that the Federal Supreme Court (STF) reject a request by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for social networks to provide identification data of all followers of the former President of the Republic. The defense sent the considerations to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, within the scope of Inquiry No. 4,921, which investigates the instigators of the coup acts of January 8.

The defense team composed of lawyers Paulo Amador da Cunha Bueno, Daniel Bettamio Tesser and Bolsonaro’s former Communications Secretary Fábio Wajngarten argues that the PGR’s request is intended to “promote measures suitable for the political-ideological intimidation of thousands of Brazilian citizens”.

The initiative refers to the request by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) for social media companies in which Jair Bolsonaro has an account, such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, to send a file with the complete list and data. identification of all followers.

Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Carlos Frederico Santos, responsible at the PGR for the January 8 inquiry, asked Alexandre de Moraes to reiterate the charge to the company Meta for a copy of the video to be sent and for the platforms to inform the number of views, likes, shares, reposts, comments and other measurable metrics.

The PGR also requires that all Bolsonaro posts regarding elections, electronic voting machines, TSE, STF and Armed Forces be sent.

The deputy prosecutor reinforced his opposition to two requests that had been made by MPF prosecutors, in a petition presented at the inquiry, for specialists in political communication of extremist movements and in the monitoring of groups of Bolsonaro supporters to be heard.

In the evaluation of Carlos Fernando Santos, there are “extreme difficulty” to identify a specialist in monitoring groups of Bolsonaro supporters who will execute “an impartial work, without any ideological or partisan bias”.

Content evaluation

As anticipated by Paulo Cappelli’s column, in metropolisesthe day after the demonstration, Carlos Frederico explained: “It is imperative to measure the impact of publications and their respective reach. I would never investigate millions of people, it would even be impossible to do that “.

Carlos Frederico also recalled that, in addition to the ex-president’s admirers or fans, there are people who follow him out of curiosity, information, professional or academic motivation or different interests. “There is only one investigated in this case: former president Jair Messias Bolsonaro”, he concluded.

*With information from Metrópoles

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