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Feb 7, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
🚨𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘

The man who broke into the Telegram accounts of hundreds of Brazilian authorities admitted in recorded conversations that he planned to HACK Brazil's chief electoral justice.

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brazilian.report/power/2023/02/… 🚨Info. obtained by @BrazilianReport from anonymous sources showed that hacker Walter Delgatti Neto had a plan to clone the SIM card of Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice @Alexandre in order to gain access to the judge's personal information and dig up dirt that could discredit him
Feb 7, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
⚠️ 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗢

🚨 HACKER DA VAZA JATO TINHA PLANO PARA INVADIR CELULAR DE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES (@alexandre) DE OLHO EM “PODRES” DO MINISTRO

🚨 MESMO HACKER AFIRMA TRABALHAR PARA DEP. CARLA ZAMBELLI

🚨 SERVIÇO SERIA PAGO COM BITCOIN

Thread 👇 ⚠️ Uma fonte anônima revelou ao The Brazilian Report que Walter Delgatti Neto, conhecido pelos vazamentos que levaram às reportagens da Vaza Jato do @TheInterceptBR, procurou sua ajuda para “invadir” o celular de Alexandre de Moraes.

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Feb 6, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇨🇱 Fires in Chile

At least 24 people died and more than 1,000 were injured after massive fires devastated southern Chile, destroying more than 100,000 hectares of forest and damaging urban infrastructure, officials said on Sunday.

🚨🇨🇱 Fires in Chile

The extent of the fires forced the government to prolong a prior “state of catastrophe” decree declared last week in the region of Araucanía, which along with Ñuble and Biobío has been the most affected.

Jan 23, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
🚨𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙔𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙈𝘼𝙈𝙄

Brazil has witnessed shocking scenes of a humanitarian disaster involving the Yanomami community, with many indigenous people left in near-death situations

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🚨The Yanomami indigenous territory between the 🇧🇷states of Roraima and Amazonas was put under a state of public health emergency due to cases of severe MALNUTRITION and MALARIA

Pictures showed that some indigenous people, including infants, were nothing more than skin and bones
Jan 20, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨PERU

Thousands of Peruvians have continued to protest against interim President Dina Boluarte, and they reached the heart of the country yesterday, with clashes that sparked a fire near the historic Plaza San Martín.

🚨🇵🇪Protesters have been demanding Ms. Boluarte’s resignation since December 2022. The resulting conflict has left more than 50 people dead and led to the declaration of a state of emergency in several areas of the country.

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Jan 20, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
🚨BREAKING

A new report by @rodrigo_rangel and @Sarahteofilo from @Metropoles says that former President Jair Bolsonaro knew and controlled a SLUSH FUND network within the presidency. The alleged scheme involved suspicious cash payments related to government credit card expenses Image 🚨 BREAKING

The report cites an investigation led by the Federal Police under the auspices of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The operation reportedly recorded the voice of Jair Bolsonaro, confirming his involvement in the scheme.

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Jan 20, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨Pro-Bolsonaro vandals are complaining about the prison-like treatment they are receiving… in prison.

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🚨According to a report by @Metropoles, far-right rioters that destroyed public buildings in Brasília on January 8 are not pleased about the conditions they have been living in since being arrested for their crimes.

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Jan 8, 2023 49 tweets 17 min read
🚨BREAKING NEWS

Radical far-right groups supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro raid Brazil's Congress in Brasília. The images coming from the capital show scenes that look like the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. 🚨BREAKING

Footage shows Bolsonaro-supporting groups confronting police near Congress. The security contingent in the capital was reportedly insufficient to contain the violent protesters.

Dec 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨BREAKING

President Jair Bolsonaro is on a plane to Florida. He won't fulfill one of Brazil’s young democracy’s staple traditions: handing the presidential sash to his successor. Image Thread 👇

The outgoing president admitted not having support to "do something" in the way of preventing a peaceful transition of power.

He hardly spoke in the 60 days that followed the runoff against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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Dec 29, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The world is saying goodbye to Pelé, football’s greatest player

Santos, the team at which Pelé spent the vast majority of his career 👇

Palmeiras, which had established a long-standing rivalry against Pelé's Santos especially between the 1950s and 1960s

Dec 29, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Pelé, the king of football👑

His first couple of years at Santos earned him a call-up to Brazil’s World Cup squad in 1958. He scored the crucial winner against Wales in the quarter-final, 3 against France in the semi, and 2 in the final against Sweden

Pelé’s 2nd World Cup 🥇 medal

Playing the greatest football of his career, he arrived at the tournament in Chile as the world’s best player. But in their second match, Pelé picked up a groin injury that kept him out of the remainder of the tournament

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Dec 28, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
✖️🔫

Responding to security threats around Sunday’s inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled to 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙨 in Brasília between Wednesday and January 2, 2023. Image A similar move was enacted during the October elections.

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Dec 28, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨Uncontrolled fires destroyed a branch of Brazilian department store chain HAVAN in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia state’s third largest city. There are no reports of injuries. Local authorities said the causes of the fire are still under investigation.

In the meantime, on social media, President Bolsonaro-supporting users turned the accident into a political fact, suggesting (without providing evidence) that the fire was caused by “left-wing criminals.” ImageImage
Oct 24, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
[Portuguese 🇧🇷]

𝙀𝙓𝘾𝙇𝙐𝙎𝙄𝙑𝙊: Vazamento mostra que dados de beneficiários do Auxílio Brasil foram usados para venda de consignado. Por @amandafaudi

Acompanhe a thread 👇 Explicando: representantes bancários tiveram acesso a dados privados de milhões de pessoas e estão usando as informações em uma estratégia agressiva de venda de crédito consignado.

Entendendo a importância do conteúdo, deixamos a matéria SEM paywall 👇

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Oct 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
THE ‘CASIMIRO PHENOMENON’: HOW FLAVIO BOLSONARO’S TWITTER STRATEGY BACKFIRED

THREAD 👇🔥 Flávio Bolsonaro, President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, photoshopped a picture of Brazilian influencer Casimiro Miguel trying to portray him as a Bolsonaro supporter...
Oct 24, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Hunger is NOT just a crisis today. It will hurt Brazil for decades to come 👇 Image Children suffer more from hunger in Brazil.

Nearly 38% of households with kids aged 10 and under experienced hunger or at least some sort of food insecurity over the past year — the rate drops to less than 31% in homes without children.

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Oct 22, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨 EXCLUSIVE:

Documents obtained by @amandafaudi show that bank representatives have access to private data from millions of low-income voters and are offering them payroll deduction loans.
brazilian.report/society/2022/1… Since October 3, when the runoff campaign began, his administration has announced eight new initiatives granting or increasing social benefits. Image
Jul 1, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Davati Medical Supply, the Texas-based company at the center of Brazil's latest vaccine scandal, has responded to an information request by Brasília correspondent @JanainaCamelo. Follow the 🧵: 1. A man claiming to represent Davati told @folha that the former Health Ministry logistics head asked for a bribe of $1 per vaccine purchased by the government.
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Jun 18, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Due to the deterioration of Venezuela’s political situation, the Americas became the largest recipient of asylum applications worldwide in 2019, according to UNHCR. Brazil became the sixth-largest destination for asylum seekers last year, with 82,500 new claims registered in 2019 By the end of 2019, Brazil had 32,860 refugees and people in refugee-like situations, but the number of people in concerning situations reaches up to 363,683 people, as more than 207,000 asylum requests are pending.

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May 4, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
How pro-Bolsonaro social media bots skew public debate online

Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy), founder of the platform @BotSentinel, which monitors the use of inauthentic accounts, explains. By @nascalzaretto.

brazilian.report/newsletters/br… According to the latest narrative of President Bolsonaro's most loyal supporters, there is a "coup" underway against the government. Today, the hashtag in favor of the President - supported mainly by fake accounts - was identified by @BotSentinel

Mar 6, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Investors' rights law firms are reportedly investigating Brazilian brokerage XP Inc for allegedly misleading investors. Less than 3 months after XP’s IPO, The Winkler Group published a report raising serious questions about the accuracy of the firm's financials. XP stocks are crashing 13.4% at Nasdaq today 👇👇👇👇