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Bolsonaro attacks VICE editor, who is forced to close his Twitter account.

The president again attacked the press because of expressions of solidarity with journalist Constança Resende, from the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, after the negative repercussions of a Twitter post made by the head of the Planalto Palace, which replicated a text from the pro-government website 'Terça Livre' that attributed to the reporter the intention of "ruining Flávio Bolsonaro and the government"; "We see many expressions of solidarity from editors of magazines and newspapers like this one from @VICEBRASIL and others easily identified. The game of farce and victimhood continues from those who were never victims," ​​Bolsonaro posted on Twitter.

Bolsonaro attacks VICE editor, who is forced to close his Twitter account.

247 - President Jair Bolsonaro again attacked the press because of expressions of solidarity with journalist Constança Resende, from the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, after the negative repercussions of a Twitter post made by the head of the Planalto Palace, which replicated a text from the website 'Terça Livre' (pro-government) that attributed to the reporter the intention of "ruining Flávio Bolsonaro and the government". The conversation was supposedly leaked to a French journalist.

"We see many expressions of solidarity from magazine and newspaper editors like this one from @VICEBRASIL and others that are easily identifiable. The game of farce and victimhood continues from those who were never victims," ​​Bolsonaro posted on Twitter.

According to a report from 'Estadão'The phrase attributed to the journalist was never uttered. "The recording of the dialogue, however, shows that Constança never mentions any 'intention' to ruin the government or the president. The conversation, in English, has truncated sentences and pauses. Only selected excerpts were released. In one of them, the reporter assesses that 'the case could compromise' and 'is ruining Bolsonaro,' but does not link her work to any intention in that sense," she says.