Screenshot of a tweet deleted from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s account. – Twitter
Twitter deleted two posts from the president’s official account on Sunday Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro in which he questioned the containment decided to fight against the coronavirus, because he had “broken the rules” of this social network.
The Brazilian head of state had published three videos on his account in which he was seen notably going to meet people on the streets of Brasilia, contrary to the instructions of his own government taken to avoid the spread of the Covid-19 .
“What I’ve been able to discuss with people is that they want to work. What I say from the start is “Let’s be careful, the over 65s stay at home” “, declared the head of the extreme right to a street vendor, in one of these videos deleted.
Brazilian court bans Bolsonaro messages against containment
Less than twenty-four hours earlier, Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta had stressed the importance of containment to fight the coronavirus pandemic which has already infected 4,256 people and has left 136 dead, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. .
Two of these three videos have been deleted and in their place Twitter has published a note explaining its decision. “Twitter recently announced worldwide the strengthening of its rules to take into account content that may go against public health guidelines from official sources and which could increase the risk of transmission of Covid-19”, a explained Twitter in a statement.
Jair Bolsonaro continues to minimize the epidemic of Covid-19 disease, which he described as “small flu”, and has harshly criticized the restrictive measures implemented in different states by local authorities, in particular by governors of the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the most affected by the epidemic. “This confinement, if it continues like this, with the number of (people who will find themselves unemployed), a little later, we will have a very serious problem that we will take years to solve,” he declared in another video. “Brazil cannot stop, if it stops, we become Venezuela,” added the head of state a little later.
A Brazilian federal court banned the Bolsonaro government on Saturday from broadcasting messages that went against local containment measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.
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