Articles by Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau
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(Português) Brasil: Folha comete fraude jornalística com pesquisa manipulada visando alavancar Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau- The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
Uma coisa é a mídia plutocrática brasileira incentivar e incitar abertamente a queda de um governo democraticamente eleito. De acordo com a RSF, esse comportamento representa uma ameaça direta à democracia e à liberdade de imprensa. Mas é muito diferente testemunhar a fabricação de manchetes e narrativas falsas insinuando que uma grande parte do país apoia o indivíduo que tomou o poder de forma antidemocrática, quando isso não é verdade.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Largest Newspaper Commits Major Journalistic Fraud to Boost Interim President Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
It’s one thing for Brazil’s plutocratic media to openly incite and agitate the fall of a democratically elected government. As Reporters Without Borders found, that behavior poses a direct threat to both democracy and press freedom. But it’s quite another to watch as they simply manufacture headlines and false narratives to suggest that a large portion of the country supports the individual who seized power undemocratically when they plainly do not.
→ read full articleBrazil: Folha’s Journalistic Fraud Far Worse Than We Reported Yesterday: A Smoking Gun Emerges
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
• Polling data concealed by Folha shows a large majority want Temer to resign: directly contradicting Folha’s key claim
• 62 percent of Brazilians want Dilma and Temer to quit and new elections held: not 3 percent as Folha stated
• Incriminating data was published, then unpublished, by Datafolha: discovered yesterday by a Brazilian website
• Response from Folha’s executive editor — they withheld data that was not “journalistically relevant” — cannot withstand scrutiny