Over the past two days, a group of pro-government influencers has mobilized new digital attacks against Deputy Guilherme Delight (PP-SP) and Governor Tarcisio de Freitas (Republican) of São Paulo, accusing him of presenting texts in PL Anti-Faction that are “so egregious as to confuse the law and create a strong risk of impunity.” In a message distributed on the channel Influencers Pode Esparjar, a WhatsApp group created to guide content creators working with the PT, the administrators said that the proposals reported by Delight are retrograde in the fight against organized crime and threaten the autonomy of the Federal Police (PF).
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One of the group’s handouts shows members listing five points that prove the Delight proposal is a “failure”, according to the government’s statement of support. The message echoes criticisms made publicly by ministers, MPs and government technologists.
Some of the widespread discussions include:
- Defining criminal factions: The group says confronting factions and paramilitary groups requires more distinct crime types, which risk compromising ongoing investigations.
- Loss of Assets: The Rapporteur’s text is accused of making it difficult to confiscate illegal assets. “We aim for money immediately after the investigation and proceedings begin, and in his case after conviction,” the document distributed said.
- Funding the PF: The message states that Delight “receives money from the PF by sending funds to states,” which will “cut off the heads of federal police and fill their pockets with organized crime.”
- Relieve leaders and focus on ‘small things’: Influencers argue that the text is ‘liberating the big boys’, confuses legal provisions and creates ‘risk of impunity for criminals’.
- Criticism of Plan B: The text points out that the rapporteur would have included a provision that would have sentenced the truck driver and anyone investigated for the January 8 act to up to 40 years in prison.
In other messages obtained by the report, administrators talk about “the far-right’s dirty games to protect organized crime” and instruct participants to pressure MPs to vote in favor of the government’s original proposal. “Defending anti-PL is defending the fight against crime,” the publication said.
The production of videos featuring fictional characters created by artificial intelligence is also part of the campaign. In one of them, a Brazilian comments on the opposition’s alleged attack on the PF. Just below that, the group is sending out text that reads: “PF News is on the air! The far right is attacking federal police to protect pet criminals, but people already understand this game! And they know that people who shouldn’t have nothing to fear.”
Group criticizes Delight’s article
Messages distributed on the Influencers Pode Spread channel, a WhatsApp group set up to guide government-aligned content creators;
Pode Esparjar’s communication strategy has already been seen on other occasions. In August, in the aftermath of Operation Hidden Carbon, administrators directed the spread of content accusing Deputy Nicolas Ferreira (PL-MG) of supporting the PCC by publishing a video containing false information about Pix. At the time, PT leader Lindbergh Farias publicly criticized the case and called for an investigation by the attorney general’s office.
This information was made public while Chamber of Commerce President Hugo Motta (R-PB) postponed the vote on the project until next Tuesday, the 18th. In an interview with GloboNews, Motta said he is not interested in knowing “whether the trophy goes to Delight or to Lula,” but rather in producing a document that can strengthen the law and “keep criminals behind bars.”
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