Government officials use invasion of Janja’s profile to defend “Censorship PL”

This Tuesday (12), government supporters used the hacker invasion of the profile of the first lady, Janja, to defend the approval of the “PL das Fake News” or “PL da Censura”.

Without mentioning the risks to freedom of expression contained in the text of PL 2630/20, the government leaders demanded control over the content published on social networks and demanded Big Techs punishment for crimes already covered by the Brazilian legal system.

On Monday night (11), the first lady’s profile on the social network , to the presidency of the Republic in 2026.

According to the Federal Police (PF), an investigation was opened at the Cybercrime Repression Directorate (DCiber), in Brasília, to investigate the case.

The Minister of Human Rights, Silvio Almeida, offered “solidarity” to the first lady and said that the social network has not taken “any action” to stop supposed “frequent attacks” on Janja.

“Once again, social networks demonstrate that they have no commitment to the user, whoever they are. Here people are completely free to offend each other, defame and slander, without any type of consequence or accountability. The result is pain, suffering and irreversible damage to reputation and even mental health,” wrote the minister in a publication on the social network X.

The crimes mentioned in the minister’s publication (slander and defamation) are already punishable in the Brazilian legal system with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment.

Known for admitting the use of “fake news” on social media to attack former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and the target of a series of accusations of “rachadinha” and “misappropriation of funds”, deputy André Janones (Avante-MG ) asked for speedy approval of the Censorship Bill and said that “the Big Techs they must have responsibilities with digital security and everything that is disseminated on their platforms”.

For deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ), the first lady’s case “shows the need for PL 2630”. When publishing on social network X, the deputy guaranteed: “Regulating is not censoring”.

The project

Reported by deputy Orlando Silva (PCdoB-SP), the project has the collaboration of ministers of the Supreme Court and collects criticism from politicians, journalists, jurists and women themselves. Big Techs.

Among the main negative points of the PL are the possibility of forcing platforms to be more proactive in taking down content; the handing over of the monopoly of truth to the State; the privilege granted to major press vehicles; the lack of openness of proposals to public debate; the lack of clarity of some ideas; and the hypothesis of scaring away some social networks in Brazil.