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Brasil Wire reports:
On April 3, Michael Shellenberger tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives dubbed, “Twitter Files Brazil”, which alleged to expose crimes by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, he claimed, had pressed criminal charges against Twitter Brasil’s lawyer for its refusal to turn over personal information on political enemies. Elon Musk quickly shared the tweets and they viralized and were embraced by the international far right, to the joy of former President Bolsonaro and his supporters.
A week later, Estela Aranha, former Secretary of Digital Rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry, revealed rot at the heart of Shellenberger’s narrative. The only criminal charge filed against Twitter Brazil referenced in the leaked emails was made by the São Paulo District Attorney’s Office, after the company refused to turn over personal data on a leader of Brazil’s largest cocaine trafficking organization, the PCC. Shellenberger had cut the section of an email about a São Paulo criminal investigation and mixed it with communications complaining about Moraes on unrelated issues.
Read the full article. There’s much more. The reporter now says, “I regret my mistake and apologize for it. I don’t have evidence that Moraes threatened to file criminal charges against Twitter’s Brazilian lawyer.” As I reported last week, Musk has vowed to defy the Brazilian Supreme Court’s order to block accounts spreading disinformation, saying that “freedom of speech” was worth losing any business in Brazil.
Michael Shellenberger exposed in Brazil:
1. Creates false story
2. Elon boosts false story
3. False story goes viral with right-wing
4. Story exposed as false
5. Shellenberger forced to apologize, flees countryImportant read from @BrianMteleSUR: https://t.co/zj1HHPMrRo pic.twitter.com/HnBHxvreiM
— gil duran (@gilduran76) April 18, 2024
Of course, in the United States he just goes on to the next Fox/Newsmax/OANN/Epoch Times/Economist interview (or Congressional hearing) as if nothing happened.
— gil duran (@gilduran76) April 18, 2024
What’s amazing is how Shellenberger has pulled the same stunts here, but with little pushback.
In Brazil, however, they weren’t having any of his BS.
The US journalism establishment is woefully unprepared for the age of disinformation warfare.— gil duran (@gilduran76) April 18, 2024