PGR wants social networks to send data of all Bolsonaro’s followers

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) submitted a request for all social networks where former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) has an account to send a file with the complete list and identification data of all his followers. The PGR’s request was sent for analysis by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes.

The magistrate is rapporteur for the inquiry into whether the former representative committed a crime for having posted and subsequently deleted a video with attacks on the electoral system two days after the acts of vandalism on January 8. The Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Carlos Frederico Santos, asks that social networks “indicate the possible instigation of violent acts against the Democratic State of Law”.

Among the networks cited by the sub-prosecutor in the document, Bolsonaro has around 15 million followers on Facebook; 25.3 million on Instagram; 11.4 million on Twitter; 6.47 million on YouTube; 5.5 million on TikTok; and 426k on LinkedIn.

If the request is accepted by Moraes, the social networks must forward to the PGR “all the posts referring to elections, electronic ballot boxes, the Superior Electoral Court, the Federal Supreme Court, the Armed Forces and photos and/or videos with these themes” made by Bolsonaro .

They must also send “in electronic file in .pdf format, the complete list with the names and identification data of the followers of Jair Messias Bolsonaro”. In addition, platforms will need to present the number of views, likes, shares, reports/retweets, comments, and other measurable metrics from the former president’s networks.

The PGR also asks that “possible authorities with jurisdiction by function prerogative before the Federal Supreme Court who have made similar publications” be identified. Companies must also identify and provide the respective data of people who have reposted/retweeted the aforementioned posts and who have more than ten thousand followers, “allowing the measurement of the reach of dissemination or the impact of the initial publications”.

The report contacted the PGR to obtain more information about the request made to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, but there was no response until the publication of the article. The space remains open.