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VEJA reported that the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decided on Saturday, 17, that its cover story about reports from banker Daniel Vorcaro of Master, with allegations against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, could continue to be published. According to the magazine, TSE President Minister Nunes Marques stated that, in a preliminary analysis, there were not enough elements to remove the article and the publications that reproduced it. He pointed out excerpts in which the magazine expressed itself directly but said they should be evaluated in the context of the report, which attributed the central accusation to Vorcaro, included the candidate's denial, and recorded reservations. In the minister's provisional evaluation, there was no evident falseness or serious decontextualization demonstrated that would justify removal. The magazine stated that the report presented audios in which Vorcaro admitted to sending money to allies of the federal government to gain access to pension funds of state-owned companies, including Petrobras, Correios, Banco do Brasil, and Caixa Econômica Federal. According to the publication, the goal was to raise 10 billion reais in investments for the bank and to pass 1 billion reais to intermediaries with the government. VEJA also reported that Vorcaro's defense presented the information to the Attorney General's Office in an attempt to negotiate a plea bargain, but the agency rejected the proposal twice. #TSE #jornalismo #Lula (translated)

Intercept Brasil reported that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a candidate for the presidency from PL, paid R$ 600 thousand to the cybersecurity company Elytron, and that the party declared it had paid another R$ 131.9 thousand to the company. According to documents obtained by the outlet, Elytron attempted to sell an artificial intelligence system in the United States to manipulate elections clandestinely. The proposal, according to Intercept Brasil, included collecting large volumes of data, identifying groups of voters, and directing actions such as spreading rumors and misinformation, creating fake accounts, and using infiltration methods to discredit opponents. https://t.co/nGDsiAuUmT #Cibersegurança #Eleições2024 #Desinformação (translated)

UpdateCharts published the last letter of Getúlio Vargas, who, according to the profile, had committed suicide 72 years earlier. The author presented the document as a historical farewell to the Brazilian people and reported that Vargas wrote he had offered his own life and, ultimately, death, without fear of what would come. #GetúlioVargas #HistóriaDoBrasil #DocumentosHistóricos (translated)

David Ágape wrote that, weeks before the first round of the elections, More in Common Brasil and researchers from UFRJ downloaded and politically categorized about 7,500 broadcasts of masses and services, totaling nearly 14,000 hours of audio. According to him, the church channels were monitored for two months in search of political and electoral references. Ágape stated that the NGO claimed to have used its own resources, but documents indicated that Luminate, an organization funded by Pierre Omidyar, had allocated around R$ 1.3 million to set up the Brazilian operation. He also mentioned Open Society, founded by George Soros, as a supporter of another research project by the branch. According to the author, the cost of monitoring and the source of the resources had not been detailed, and those responsible for the organization did not respond to some questions. https://t.co/MzuOako95t #Eleições2023 #Transparência #Religião (translated)

Based on the same documents, Filipe Sousa ensured that he never negotiated or accepted any waiver of payment, having, after the return of the vehicle, remained waiting for the issuance of the invoice, which he requested from the rental entity. #FilipeSousa #MinistérioPúblico #ImunidadeParlamentar (translated)

The Government, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to hide in this matter; so much so that I have ordered the publication of a dossier with all the reports, all of them, so that the media and the public can examine them for themselves. Therefore, absolute transparency and publicity of all documents so that the truth about this issue is known exactly. #Ceuta #SeguridadNacional #Marruecos (translated)

What will be limited to making some gesture of disapproval without further consequences when Sánchez announced the declassification of documents related to the invasion, also assuring that no one had alerted the Government about that action. #FuerzasArmadas #MargaritaRobles #Ceuta (translated)

One of the disappointing things is that we did not get answers to any of the issues we had specifically requested, such as providing us with the documents for the FFE project. I asked why not, and we were told to submit those questions in writing. He has to answer those questions, and if he doesn't do it now, he is not fit to be president of FIFA. #FIFA #Infantino #corrupción (translated)

This is ... a step forward with sound technical documents prepared by the legal team of the Canary Autonomous Community with specialists in community law, and we understand that it is possible to carry out these measures," stated the government spokesperson, Alfonso Cabello, to the media. #ViviendaCanarias #Residencia #PolíticaHabitacional (translated)

The National Police has detained 40 immigrants in Ceuta who were trying to board towards Algeciras with identity documents of other people, and has also arrested five individuals for facilitating these documents, charging up to 6,000 euros. #InmigraciónIlegal #Ceuta #PolicíaNacional (translated)

The NINJA Media questioned whether the senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) had not said that he didn't even know the person in question. The publication stated that documents analyzed by the Federal Police and reported by Malu Gaspar in the newspaper O Globo indicated that he was listed as the "master user" of the bank account of the offshore Alcazar Holdings, based in Portugal. #FlávioBolsonaro #Política #Corrupção (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that a complaint had been filed against the registrar Penagos. He stated that removing the hash code from PDF documents such as the E14 forms constituted a crime and violated Colombian law, and that the registrar had allowed 97% of those forms to be modifiable. https://t.co/5zJauDZSF4 #Colombia #Legal #Justicia (translated)

The author stated that those who participated in an operation of electoral fraud and massive forgery of public documents should be held accountable for it. He also shared a news article reporting allegations against consuls in Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba for granting nationalities under the so-called "grandchildren's law." #FraudeElectoral #Justicia #Corrupción #AR #MX #CU (translated)