Investigation into the Wikipedia case begins this Tuesday.
Created by order of President Dilma Rousseff, who classified the episode as "inadmissible," the commission that will investigate the alterations made to the Wikipedia profiles of journalists Miriam Leitão and Carlos Alberto Sardenberg begins its work this Tuesday, the 12th; it will have 30 days to determine who made the modifications; the commission's president will be the executive secretary of the Civil House, Valdir Simão. He will be assisted by Renato Martini, from the National Institute of Information Technology, Maurício Marques, from the Administration Secretariat of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, and Márcio Lopes, special advisor to the Ministry of Justice.
247 - The commission of inquiry created by order of President Dilma Rousseff will begin investigating the changes made to the profiles of journalists and politicians on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia whose texts can be edited anonymously, this Tuesday, the 12th. It will have a period of 30 days to determine who was responsible for the modifications.
The chairman of the commission will be the executive secretary of the Civil House, Valdir Simão. He will be assisted by Renato Martini, from the National Institute of Information Technology, Maurício Marques, from the Administration Secretariat of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, and Márcio Lopes, special advisor to the Ministry of Justice. The decree detailing the commission and the appointment of its members will be published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette of the Union.
President Dilma Rousseff described the episode as "unacceptable." "My opinion is that it is absolutely unacceptable, on the part of the Presidential Palace, on the part of the federal government, or on the part of any government. I completely repudiate this type of action, as I did with all the leaks. In this specific case, whoever wants to do it individually, let them do it, but don't involve the government," the president condemned.
A report in "O Globo" this Friday showed that the IP address 200.181.15.10, belonging to the Presidency, made changes to the profiles of journalists Míriam Leitão, a columnist for "O Globo," and Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, from CBN and Rede Globo, in May of last year with the aim of criticizing them. Alterations to politicians' pages were also made during that period.
The IP address was used to link Miriam Leitão to banker Daniel Dantas, claiming that the columnist had made "the most courageous and passionate defense" of him, and to discredit her economic analyses. Regarding Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, the government network included comments attacking the journalist because he is the brother of the director of Febraban (Brazilian Federation of Banks), Rubens Sardenberg. "The family relationship denotes a conflict of interest in his position as an economic columnist," they wrote.