Misleading: A tweet claiming that the Federal Supreme Court (STF) “challenged” the Armed Forces due to the fact that the Minister of Defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, became the target of a criminal notice in court in the context of the ballot box audit report made by the folder. The action in the STF is real, but it was filed by federal deputy Elias Vaz (PSB-GO). The petition was distributed, on November 11, to Minister André Mendonça, and a decision is pending.
investigated content
tweet which accuses the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of “defying the Armed Forces once and for all”, because the Minister of Defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, became the target of a criminal notice in the court due to the audit report of the ballot boxes made by the folder.
where it was published: Twitter.
Conclusion of Comprova: Tweet deceives by attributing to the STF the presentation of a criminal notice against minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira. The action is in the STF, but is authored by federal deputy Elias Vaz (PSB-GO), dated November 10, as reported by the UOL it’s the Center of the World Diary
The deputy alleges that the disclosure of the ballot box inspection report by the Armed Forces stimulated “coup speculation”, and asks that the case be forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Federal Police for investigation.
the petition 10699 was distributed, on the 11th of November, to Minister André Mendonçaand a decision is pending.
Therefore, the crime news is not a proposition of the STF, as the person responsible for the verified post tries to make believe, when concluding the tweet with the sentence: “The STF has challenged the Armed Forces once and for all!”.
misleading, for Comprova, is content removed from the original context and used in another so that its meaning undergoes changes; that uses inaccurate data or that induces an interpretation different from the author’s intention; content that is confusing, with or without the deliberate intent to cause harm.
publication reach: Comprova investigates suspicious content with greater reach on social networks. As of Tuesday afternoon, November 15, the verified tweet had 3,500 retweets and 14,000 likes.
What the person responsible for the publication says: The creator of the verified content’s Twitter account does not accept direct messages. Comprova then found an associated profile on Facebook and tried to contact them, but there was no response until the closing of this check.
How do we check: We look for the article on the site Center of the World Diary, cited as a source by the creator of the verified tweet in a comment on the same post. Afterwards, we searched Google for pages that contained the keywords “STF”, “Paulo Sérgio” and “crime news” We received a report from the UOL about the case.
Crime news is authored by deputy
Federal deputy Elias Vaz (PSB-GO) is the author of the crime news that Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira is the target of in the context of the Armed Forces report on electronic ballot boxes in this year’s elections.
In the complaint, Vaz claims that the audit report of the Armed Forces polls was “awaited with great anxiety” by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Since the defeat in the second round, on the 30th of October, they block roads and make vigil in front of Armed Forces barracks throughout Brazil calling for a military coup According to the Federal Highway Police, on November 1, these anti-democratic acts paralyzed 267 stretches of highways Brazilian.
When released on November 9, the report showed that the Armed Forces did not identify any fraud in the electoral process and that, during the ballot box integrity tests, they “did not show any anomalies” and that everything happened “as planned” The report at the same time points out that it is not “in scope” to assess the “degree of security of the voting system”
However, the Ministry of Defense released a note on Thursday, November 10, in which it delegitimizes the report itself by stating that the document “did not rule out the possibility of fraud or inconsistency in electronic ballot boxes”, casting doubt on the electoral system without presenting any evidence. In view of this, Elias Vaz presented the criminal notice against Minister Nogueira.
According to the deputy, the minister committed crimes of responsibility, foreseen in Article 7 of Law 1079 of 1950and crimes against the country’s internal security, in Article 8 of the same lawfor “calling into question the fairness of the electoral process, encouraging the realization of anti-democratic movements, encouraging actions that seek to break the constitutional order and the law”.
Read the deputy’s action in full.
Complaint is under review by the STF
Vaz filed the criminal notice on Thursday, November 10th. The action reached the STF the next day, as reported on the court’s official website
On the same day, the case was distributed to Minister André Mendonça The records are concluded for the rapporteur, that is, they are available to Mendonça and await the minister’s manifestation.
What is a crime news
According to glossary of the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the crime news is the criminal fact that comes to the knowledge of the competent authority to investigate it. As showed Estadão in a recent report, the warning can be filed by any citizen, who can inform the authorities that there is a crime being committed.
Armed Forces Report
The Armed Forces were included in the Resolution 23,673/2021, of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), as supervisors of the electronic voting system. On October 2, shortly after the result of the first round, Bolsonaro was asked if he considered the result of the election to be legitimate and replied that he would await the result of the audit of the ballot boxes carried out by the Armed Forces
Ao Comprova, the advisory of the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the Armed Forces, had said, in October, by telephone, that the report would only be released after the second round of elections On November 9th, already in a context in which supporters of Bolsonaro, defeated at the polls by Lulaprotested in front of the barracks asking for “federal intervention”, the Armed Forces released the document with the conclusion that there were no inconsistencies (Brazilian Mail and UOL) between the votes recorded in ballot boxes and those computed by the TSE.
However, the day after the release of the report, the Ministry of Defense released a note stating that the report did not point to any fraud, but also “does not exclude the possibility of fraud or inconsistency in electronic voting machines”.
why do we investigate: Comprova investigates suspicious content that goes viral on social media about the pandemic, federal government public policies and presidential elections. Even after the elections, false and misleading materials still circulate to discredit the electoral system, political figures and Brazilian institutions. Manifestations in this sense, with unfounded allegations, try to take away the credibility of the process and reach democracy.
Other checks on the topic: Regarding the audit of the Armed Forces in this year’s elections and the integrity of the electoral process, Comprova has already explained that external audits attested to the reliability of the electoral system in the 1st roundjust as it showed that decree for the participation of the Armed Forces in elections is customary in Brazil is that the electronic voting system can be audited
Investigated by: Crusoé and O Dia; Verified by: Estado de Minas, NSC, CBN Cuiabá, Estado de S.Paulo and A Gazeta
Source: CNN Brasil
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