Comment on How Brazil’s Far-Right Extremists Learned From Trump Insurrectionists on Parler

Isabela Dias, Mother Jones
Tue, 04/20/2021 - 3:00am

How Brazil’s Far-Right Extremists Learned From Trump Insurrectionists on Parler

The day after Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s official account following the US Capitol insurrection on January 6, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro invited his 18 million Instagram followers to join the conservative social media site Parler. Bolsonaro, as well as members of his cabinet and family who echoed Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections, had been active in the self-described uncensored platform favored by the far right since July and lauded its promise of freedom of expression.

 

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