This Monday (08), President Jair Bolsonaro gave an interview 5 and a half hours to the Flow** podcast, whose co-founder Monark (Bruno Aiub), was fired after defending the legality of Nazi parties during a broadcast (Estadão🚥). Bolsonaro repeated false information and made controversial speeches to the approximately 500 listeners who watched the first hour of the episode.
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The president defended, among other things, that the military regime has “pros” and “cons” and criticized the conviction of deputy Daniel Silveira, arrested in the act for using social media to disseminate fake news and hate speech against ministers of the Federal Supreme Courtsystem. (BBC) The Flow podcast is directed by Gianluca Eugênio and has one of the largest audiences in Brazil, having received more than 600 guests and reaching half a billion views on YouTube.
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Vaccination
Bolsonaro reaffirmed that have not been vaccinated against coronavirus, moving away from “political correctness”, and associated the act of immunization with “gay behavior”, in homophobic speech. Despite the embarrassment, the presenter stated that, if possible, he would take the vaccine against a monkeypox in Brazil.
For the president, “medical autonomy” was “castrated” in the pandemic, because the use of placebos or early treatments. “The soldier arrived injured, there was no one to donate more blood, and the doctor put coconut water into the guys’ veins. And he saved it,” he argued.
Nas social networks, some internet users accused the program organizers of being “giving a platform” for the common distortions in Bolsonaro’s speeches, who is the first presidential candidate to be interviewed. The Flow podcast also invited pre-candidates Lula (PT), Simone Tebet (MDB) and Ciro Gomes (PDT) for an interview.
STF and leftism
Bolsonaro stated that there is, within the Federal Supreme Court (STF), a known “left bias” (UOL), and again denied the military coup of 1964. “Shooting, wall…It was all in accordance with the 1946 Constitution”, he said. For the president, the Supreme Court’s decisions are highly arbitrary. He recalled the ministers' decision to give states autonomy to take measures to combat COVID-19 and also stated that minister Alexandre de Moraes' “class” decides what is fake news.
Disinformation
The podcast's production team displayed a statement in the broadcast video saying “Remember to research everything said in this program”, to combat the reproduction of fake news. The fact was mocked by part of the public, and opponents of the president uploaded the tag “LIAR OF THE REPUBLIC” on Twitter this Monday (8).
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