On Sunday, with the debate between Jair Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva, Brazil kicked off the campaign for the presidential elections in October. Days later, the country’s current president suffered his first viral setback: opponents hijacked a web page promoting his administration and now jokes him kiss vladimir putinwith Nazi costume or directly behind bars.

“Threat to Brazil”, It’s the header the page features these days Bolsonaro.com.br. The main illustration portrays the president with the presidential sash, military suit and symbols of Nazism: swastika, outstretched arm and Hitler-style mustache.

In its new version, the page is defined as “a digital art gallery and journalistic archive linked to the Bolsonaro family”.

On the home page, the page exposes Bolsonaro’s alleged plan to “subvert power”. And enumerates: “election corrosion”, “violence and hatred”, “spread of disinformation”, “generalized corruption”, “rise of neo-fascism”, “politics of death”, “weakening of the rule of law”, “Recruitment of forces armed. “,” Serves to foreign powers “and” End of decorum “.

Each object has its own allusive illustration: Bolsonaro’s red face and horns in devil modethe president with a snake as his tongue, his son Eduardo in a baby version as the face of disinformation e carnal relations with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, among other reasons that satirize the leader of the Social Liberal Party.

An inscription summarizes the spirit of the page: “Bolsonaro has never hidden that he is authoritarian. In his three decades as a politician he has always supported violence, stupidity and the collapse of the democratic order”. Questions in line with those launched by the opposition, which he would have taken advantage of an oversight take control of a highly coveted e-address more than two decades old.

Bolsonaro’s page, with a long history

At least until October 2021, Bolsonaro.com.br was dedicated to enhancing the figure of the Brazilian president. The visitor was greeted with an image bearing the legend “Brazil first, God first”, Bolsonaro’s slogan.

At that time, it listed the measures the president had taken due to the coronavirus, redirected Bolsonaro’s podcast and Telegram channel (both official) to an unofficial YouTube profile, and even offered the presidential curriculum vitae for consultation.

The promotion has been extended to the whole family, with a photograph of the CEO together with his children: Flávio, Carlos, Eduardo and Renán. Additionally, he was redirected to the family’s official blog.

At the bottom, signature and copyright: “Copyright 2000 – 2020 Bolsonaro Family”.

In fact, the activity of the page Bolsonaro.com.br dates back to the beginning of the new millennium. The use of the tool archive.org lets you visit a 2002 version when the current president was campaigning as a federal deputy.

In that almost prehistoric version, with its corresponding design, Jair Bolsonaro himself asked to support the “military candidates” and to create “a spirit of unity”. He also offered campaign materials to be printed and distributed among the militants.

In 2018, according to local media, the platform was also used by the current president to ask for votes. Subsequently, at the height of its ascendant career, from December 2019 the page started spreading the news of its leader.

An investigation by Folha of San Paolo exposed in 2020 that a businessman from Brasilia was behind the domain, who admitted providing information about his company to the Bolsonaro office when he was a federal deputy, but claimed to have been outside the its operations from the beginning.

What happened to the Bolsonaro.com.br page?

After more than two decades in Bolsonaro’s service, the page entered a period of silence. As pointed out O Balloonlast January there was a change of hands: the opponents bought it and Bolsonaro continued to be the protagonist, albeit with a very different approach.

the situation would be far from a trick. The Brazilian media pointed out that the new owner is Gabriel Baggio Thomaz. The new owner, who has not yet responded to requests from Brazilian newspapers, would have taken advantage of an oversight of the previous owners, who they forgot to renew the domain and so they would set him free.

The overturn has suffered Bolsonaro.com.br it is in tune with the proliferation of digital content towards the president, who is asking for his re-election.

In this sense, Folha of San Paolo He explained that this new trend of apocryphal sites could violate electoral legislation, ahead of the October 2 elections.

Federal MP Felício Laterça also sent a note to the Supreme Court and the Electoral Court of Brazil to investigate the page for spreading “false accusations” and “fake news”. Then the Brazilian Minister of Justice and Public Security joined.

“Faced with such a direct and rude attack on President Jair Bolsonaro, via a website, I asked the Director General of the Federal Police to immediately initiate a police investigation, for a proper investigation of the facts,” said Anderson Torres.

The measure could finally lower the shutters on the electronic address that has been able to host official government campaigns and actions, signed and copyrighted by Jair Bolsonaro and the Bolsonaro family.

And that now – between Hitler, kisses with Putin and devils – carries with it a fairly evident legend: “This page is not managed nor belongs to the Bolsonaro family”.

DB