In the trial, which should end on Tuesday night (25), ministers Luís Roberto Barroso, Gilmar Mendes, Dias Toffoli, Ricardo Lewandowski, Alexandre de Moraes and Cármen Lúcia accompanied the rapporteur. The topic is being analyzed in an extraordinary session in the virtual plenary, which judges the attempt by the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, to overturn sections of the rule approved by the TSE in the final stretch of the elections.
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The PGR's claim is that “the 'temporary suspension of profiles, accounts or channels maintained on social media' (art. 4) characterizes true prior censorship, since there is a presumption that such virtual environments will be used to disseminate false content ”.
Minister Alexandre de Moraes, current president of the TSE, in his vote said that “freedom of expression cannot be expected to legitimize the dissemination of false information that undermines the democratic process and takes away from voters the free power of self-determination in the electoral process ”.
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