@UOLNoticias reports that Brazilian President Bolsonaro's son Carlos is trying to outsource his Cambridge Analytica-style social media psyops group, nicknamed "the cabinet of hate", to at least one big data company in the US, and that Steve Bannon is helping set the deal up.
He's doing it, apparently, to protect against his possible arrest, since these activities are illegal in Brazil and he's currently under investigation by the federal police for spreading fake news during the 2018 election season to favor his father.
Among the lies allegedly spread by the Cabinet of Hate to targeted evangelical Christian voter groups via Facebook's WhatsApp messenger service during the 2018 elections: If Fernando Haddad were elected, he would create a government panel to decide childrens' gender at age 5.

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20 Sep
What is now happening to Paulo Freire's theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. (thread)
During his lifetime, the oppressing classes constantly hounded him, received his theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander.
After his death, attempts are made to convert him into a harmless icons, to canonize him [...] while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. (Paraphrased from Lenin's "State and Revolution", ch. 1)
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19 Sep
The Koch-trained Free Brasil Movement (MBL) and Bolsonaro and his followers have spent years pushing to purge everything about Paulo Freire, the most internationally-cited Brazilian academic ever, from the Brazilian school system. Today marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Freire's 1968 book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" written during exile in Chile, after being arrested and imprisoned by Brazil's US-backed neofascist military dictatorship, it is still the 3rd most cited social sciences book in academia today.
One of the founding works of critical pedagogy, "Oppressed" compares traditional education with putting coins in piggy banks, with teachers depositing knowledge in their students' heads. Instead, Freire argues, teachers should treat their students as co-creators of knowledge.
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9 Sep
Fascism and big business have walked hand in hand since the days of Mussolini. Meet Marlon Bonilha (l), the multimillionaire owner of the Pro-Tork trucking company, which still has a dozen trucks parked on Brasilia's Esplanade honking and intimidating the Supreme Court.
This is a picture of a childrens' toy version of a Pro Tork truck. Notice the logo on the side of the cab.
Now look at this video I shot yesterday, of the trucks parked in front of the Supreme Court honking and intimidating the judiciary.
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5 Sep
I will be in Brasilia covering the planned violent occupation of the Brazilian Supreme Court for TeleSur. I'm starting this thread for updates on what is happening. Will it really happen or is it just Bannon/Bolsonaro psyops? Is the whole point just the threat itself? ImageImage
The US Embassy in Brazil has issued a security alert for US citizens, advising them to stay away from both the anti-Bolsonaro protests, planned in 131 cities, and the Pro-Bolsonaro/Anti Supreme Court protests, planned primarily for Brasilia and Sao Paulo. Image
Several people, including Sergio Reis, the 81 year old cattle rancher/pop singer who has an estimated fortune of R$274 million, have already been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation over a planned violent attack on the Supreme Court this September 7. Image
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28 Aug
Today marks the 38th anniversary of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores/CUT, the largest Labor Union Federation in Latin America. Despite the setbacks of the US-backed 2016 coup, with 23 million members it remains the largest mobilizing force on the Brazilian left.
Some self-proclaimed vanguard leftists aided the full spectrum, imperialist war against the Brazilian left during the lead up to the coup by spreading a false narrative that CUT was a PT puppet, which ignored the 1000+ strikes per year during Lula/Rousseff presidencies.
It is true that the CUT and PT are intertwined - Lula helped found both. Around 1/3 of all of PT's elected officials are former union leaders. However, they have to resign from CUT in order to run for office and CUTs institutional decisions are made through democratic assemblies.
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27 Aug
Aristocrats see fascism as a route to retaking power lost to the bourgeoisie. While in Brazil planning her "Conservative International", AfD Parliamentarian Beatrix von Storch, granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, met with Bolsonaro-backers in the Brazilian Monarchy.
AfD Parliamentarian Von Storch's birth name/title was, Her Highness Duchess Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Oldenburg. She is a distant relative of both Prince Charles and Bertrand de Orléans e Bragança, the head of the Brazilian royal family, who she met with last month.
In 2018, Congressman/Prince Luiz Philippe Maria José Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança became the first member of the Brazilian Royal Family to take political office since the fall of the Monarchy. Jair Bolsonaro later said, "I should have chosen you as my VP.
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