TCU gives Banco do Brasil 48 hours to suspend advertising on fake news pages.
Banco do Brasil had already cut off the advertising, but after a complaint from Carlos Bolsonaro, the ads were reinstated on pro-Bolsonaro fake news pages.
247 - Minister Bruno Dantas, of the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts), gave Banco do Brasil 48 hours to prove that it complied with the agency's order to immediately suspend all advertising on websites and blogs accused of spreading fake news. This information comes from journalist Monica Bergamo. your column in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.
According to the journalist, the TCU (Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts) received information that the institution was allegedly disobeying the decision made by the court's plenary session to suspend the transfer of funds to the websites.
The bank had cut off advertisements placed on websites such as Jornal da Cidade Online, which aligns with the positions of Jair Bolsonaro's government and has already been condemned for publishing allegedly false news.
Bergamo also reports that when the initiative became public, councilman Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the President of the Republic, complained of censorship of what he calls a free and independent press.