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Glenn Greenwald
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There is some really sick, demented and dangerous trash being spread in Bolsonaro WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages - from "Captain Durval Ferreira" - about Jean Wyllys, David Miranda, Marcelo Freixo, Lula, PSOL & me: the kind of stuff that can get people killed.
In the meantime, Bolsonaro fanatics continue to be obsessed with maligning Intercept content, with their moronic but intensifying viral campaign to "dislike" our YouTube reports (which, ironically, only helps its visibility) and spread demented conspiracies about our function.
All this because Bolsonaro's Senator-son got caught with very suspicious flows of money into his account (along with Bolsonaro's wife) and, most alarmingly of all, very close links to Brazil's most dangerous death squads, which assassinated Marielle dw.com/en/jair-bolson…
It's a bizarre sensation being accused of being a fascist-enabler by sheltered, coddled, online Williamsburg and Portland liberals while being targeted, threatened and menaced by actual fascists - the real deal - the kind those brave Brooklyn liberals have never encountered.
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