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Bolsonarists celebrate fake news about Alexandre de Moraes’ arrest

Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), the defeated candidate for President, celebrated the alleged arrest of Alexandre de Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and what would be the decree of an intervention federal, in the undemocratic act in front of the Eastern Military Command (CML), in the center of Rio de Janeiro. The information, however, is false.

Under heavy rain and without internet access, due to the large number of activists at the event, fake news spread among supporters of the current president. They initially celebrated the supposed information that federal intervention had been decreed in the Presidency. Minutes later, the story grew. Groups began to celebrate Moraes' alleged arrest.

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“Alexandre de Moraes was arrested. Arrested”, shouted a young woman, who said she was sure of the information.

The same false information had already been celebrated in São Paulo and Porto Alegre during truck drivers' blockades on federal highways.

Watch the “celebration” video:

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