"We want a democratic solution to the problem. We do not want an authoritarian solution. There are countries that adopt authoritarian solutions, we recognize that. They ban [the operation of platforms] and that's it. We want to protect individuals from an avalanche of disinformation that offends their reputation and against which they have no protection, and we will be able to do that!

Lula is a product of modernity.... I agree with critics who say that we are still very analog on social media. (...) Combating fake news is still a problem for us. We also need to better calibrate our communication, our speeches. We need to learn to deal with this rise of the far-right.

When you have a center-left party on one side and a center-right one on the other, there is a parity of arms [reference to the PT x PSDB dispute]. With the far-right, there is no parity. That's the truth. There is no protection. They use tools that are not from our culture.

I regret to say that I consider Bolsonaro a good translation of what many people think in Brazil. I regret it because I am shocked that this [far-right organization] has come about around this figure who has a very archaic, almost medieval mentality."