🇺🇸❗️🇧🇷🤡👨‍⚖⚖️ — The Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives released a report in which it expressed concern about decisions by Brazil’s judiciary regarding social media and alleged that Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes practices censorship and lawfare that could interfere in Brazil’s presidential election, scheduled to take place in October

“The content removal orders [from social media] issued by Brazil on a global scale, its coordination with U.S. and foreign censors, and the removal of legal protections for American social media platforms represent a threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.

These actions demonstrate that Brazil is not only seeking to silence political dissent within its borders, but also to suppress freedom of expression worldwide, including in the United States. For example, between September 2025 and February 2026, Justice Moraes issued a series of orders against Eduardo Bolsonaro [PL-SP] — son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro [PL] and brother of Flávio Bolsonaro [PL-RJ], one of the leading candidates for the Brazilian presidency — who currently resides in the United States and is a prominent advocate for the imposition of U.S. sanctions against Justice Moraes.

These censorship orders by Justice Moraes and the information requests from the Brazilian Federal Police related to the underlying investigation prohibit platforms from ‘disclosing the decision to lift confidentiality — as well as the preservation of the data itself — to the owners of the profiles, given the confidential nature of the investigation and the risk of obstruction,’ making the orders secret both to the public and to the target of the censorship.”

➡️ The committee added that, in November 2025, “at the same time as issuing these censorship orders, Justice Moraes was one of the Federal Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of trying Eduardo Bolsonaro for his political activities in the United States.”

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Brazilian judges have openly admitted that they are trying to censor speech from “outside [Brazil’s] national borders.”

That’s right: these Brazilian judges claim the extraordinary power to demand the global removal of posts that originate in the United States and elsewhere.

It is a direct threat to free expression and national sovereignty around the world.

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Many of these Brazilian censorship orders specifically target American speech. Justice Moraes has repeatedly tried to silence American podcasters and influencers.

When platforms like X and Rumble refused to enforce these illegal orders on behalf of a foreign government, Justice Moraes banned the platforms.

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Brazil’s primary censorship agency, the Integrated Center for Confronting Disinformation and Defending Democracy (CIEDDE), also targets American speech.

Documents show that CIEDDE tried to force X to censor political speech praising President Trump and criticizing former President Biden. X held the line and refused to take the posts down.

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Even worse, these Brazilian censorship orders—particularly those from Justice Moraes—show a clear pattern: They target political enemies.

Moraes routinely orders the removal of posts that criticize him.

He also tries to silence anyone who advocates for free speech. After Eduardo Bolsonaro—a member of the Brazilian Congress and the son of former President Bolsonaro—reportedly urged the U.S. government to sanction Moraes for his censorship, Moraes targeted Bolsonaro with censorship orders of his own for “circulating false news about officials of the national financial system, particularly Banco do Brasil.”

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These are blatant attempts by Moraes to attack his political rivals ahead of Brazil’s presidential election in October, in which Eduardo Bolsonaro’s brother, Flavio, is a leading candidate.

That kind of political interference casts serious doubt on the fairness of the election.

And this is not new. Moraes issued similar censorship orders during the 2022 presidential race, targeting negative content about the radical leftist candidate Lula da Silva.

Brazil’s censorship regime may be focused on political enemies today, but its global ambitions are unmistakable.

Documents produced to the Committee show that Brazil has coordinated its censorship efforts with other foreign censorship regimes and Stanford University.

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🇺🇸❗️🇧🇷 — The U.S. Department of State stated that it is monitoring with “serious concern” judicial decisions and actions by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) that restrict freedom of expression

🔍 According to the statement, the White House is monitoring alleged actions by the Brazilian government to “suppress” critics and court orders that run counter to users’ right to express themselves on social media.

👨‍⚖ The statement comes after the release of a new report by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, which accuses Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes of censorship. The document cites orders from the justice for technology companies to remove posts and accounts from platforms.

⚖️ In the declaration, the Department of State says it has expressed concern over decisions by the Brazilian judiciary, considered “broad and disproportionate,” that restrict access to information.

🤡 In addition, it criticizes actions by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that, according to the department, “secretly suppress unfavorable political opinions — including those of journalists and elected officials — without due process of law.” It did not specify which measures these would be.

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