With hate speech against the PT (Workers' Party), Estadão discredits a civilizing initiative to combat fake news.

247 - At a time when the civilized world finds itself beset by the rise of the far right and threatened by the proliferation of fake news and hate speech, the newspaper Estado de S. Paulo attacked the Lula government in its editorial. "The Lula-era Workers' Party monopoly on truth"In a text riddled with hate speech, the São Paulo newspaper attacks the civilizing initiative that has been pursued in various parts of the world, not only by governments, but also by the big tech companies themselves, to combat phenomena of cognitive dissonance stemming from false information and prejudices disseminated by communication systems.

"On another front, the Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency, Congressman Paulo Pimenta, announced the creation of the Secretariat of Digital Policies, a structure that will operate in the Planalto Palace to 'combat disinformation and hate speech on social media.' Now, it is not up to a government to determine what is disinformation, much less to have a structure devoted to 'combating' what it calls 'hate speech' – a generic name that PT members will certainly use, as they already do, to qualify the criticisms of opponents," writes the editorialist.

In the text, the newspaper attacks Pimenta, just as Folha and O Globo did, because of the event that occurred with Jair Bolsonaro on September 6, 2018, on the eve of that year's presidential elections. "If this thought police is to be taken seriously, they should start by targeting Secretary Paulo Pimenta himself, who is an adherent of the lunatic theory that the knife attack suffered by Jair Bolsonaro was a setup – a classic case of fake news," points out the editorialist, who seems... Ignoring what was published by Estado de S. Paulo itself, in its pages, by the respected professional journalist José Nêumanne."Journalist Joaquim de Carvalho published on the website 247, where he writes a column, a meticulous documentary in which he raises consistent doubts about the stabbing that the candidate elected in 2018 claims to have suffered at the hands of a former PSOL militant at a rally in Juiz de Fora on September 6, 2018, during the campaign," wrote Nêumanne.

"The strangeness intensified when it became known that the defense of the alleged victim, lobbyist Frederick Wassef, clumsily missed the deadline for appealing the decision of the judge in the Minas Gerais city to confirm the Federal Police's theory that the aggressor was a 'lone wolf.' The documentary, by a journalist with a respectable resume, having been a sub-editor at Veja and a reporter for Jornal Nacional, among other media outlets, and winner of the Esso Award (team, 1992), the Vladimir Herzog Award, and the Social Journalism Award (Imprensa magazine), could serve as a clue for Congressman Alexandre Frota to point out reasons for convening a CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) regarding the stabbing, nicknamed 'fake-stabbing' since his colleague Joice Hasselmann recounted hearing Bolsonaro say: 'If I were stabbed, I would win the election,'" Nêumanne also wrote.

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