Misleading: It is misleading that, in an interview with the Pilhado podcast, on Sunday (9), President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) stated that former President Fernando Collor de Mello (PTB) would be his minister, in an eventual second term, and that the government would “confiscate the pensions of retirees”. Bolsonaro was actually being sarcastic and listing baseless accusations made against him. The president has denied any invitation to Collor, and no concrete, public evidence has been found to disprove him.
Investigated Content: tweet who shares an excerpt from an interview with President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), in which he says that former President Fernando Collor de Mello (PTB) will be minister, in an eventual second term, and that the government will “confiscate the retirement of retirees”. ”. The post is complemented by a second tweet, in which the author asks his followers to “check before downloading and reposting”.
where it was published: Twitter.
Completion of Proof: It is misleading that, in an interview with the Pilhado podcast, on Sunday (9), President Jair Bolsonaro stated that former President Fernando Collor de Mello would be his minister, in an eventual second term, and that the government would “confiscate the retirees’ retirement.
The piece of disinformation was posted on Twitter by deputy André Janones (Avante-MG), who is part of the presidential campaign of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). He took a decontextualized snippet of an interview given by Bolsonaro to the Pilhado podcast and broadcast live on Sunday (9).
Bolsonaro was actually being sarcastic and listing baseless accusations made against him, including one that he was a cannibal. The president denied any invitation to Collor at the end of the interview. Comprova did not find any concrete and public evidence to disprove it.
misleading, for Comprova, is content taken from the original context and used in another so that its meaning undergoes changes; that uses inaccurate data or that leads to an interpretation different from the author’s intention; content that confuses, with or without the deliberate intent to cause harm.
Scope of publication: The original tweet received more than 41,500 interactions, including retweets, likes and tweets with comments until Monday afternoon (10), when it was deleted by Janones himself, after Comprova tried to contact him. The complementary tweet, in which the author insists that he is not responsible for the accuracy of the content, received only 11,900 interactions in the same period.
What the author of the publication says: Comprova got in touch with the author of the verified tweet, Deputy André Janones, through his whatsapp advice, but did not get a response until the publication of this verification.
How do we check: When searching on Twitter, by the keywords “Bolsonaro”, “Collor” and “minister”, we found an enlarged version of the video shared by the verified tweet. She went published by the former Secretary of Culture and deputy elected by São Paulo Mário Frias (PL). We also identified the full version of the video in question on Youtube.
We are still looking for signs of the eventual invitation that Bolsonaro would have made to Collor when he Googled the keywords, “Bolsonaro”, “Collor” and “minister”. To refine the search, we looked for only content that preceded the interview, that is, published until October 8.
We also sought contact with the author of the publication, Deputy André Janones, through his press office via Whatsapp.
Excerpt decontextualizes Bolsonaro’s sarcasm
Janones’ post, verified here, distorted a sarcastic comment by Bolsonaro, at the beginning of the interview with the Pilhado podcast. As the context of the speech shows, in the original version of the interview, between 3:26 and 4:15the president was actually listing baseless accusations made against him.
“The left does this job very well. Now they are saying two things there. First, that I’m a cannibal. Gee, it’s f…, huh? Put up with a train like that. And the other is that Collor is going to be a minister and we are going to confiscate the pensions of retirees. And play. It’s like that all the time,” Bolsonaro said.
At the end of the interview, one of the presenters, influencer Paulo Figueiredo, grandson of the last dictator of the Brazilian military regime, João Figueiredo, exposed Janones’ tweet – the congressman published the piece of disinformation while the interview was still taking place. When denouncing the deputy, Figueiredo asked Bolsonaro to deny the allegation.
“There is no invitation for Mr. Collor de Mello to be a minister. There is no invitation, there is no. I would invite him to be a minister, according to Janones, to confiscate the salary of the guys, to leave the old people without a pension, the lady without a pension. What madness is this? Oh my God. What madness is this?”, Bolsonaro said.
This final part of the interview takes place between 3:51:00 and 3:53:05 of the original version of the video, as published on Pilhado’s YouTube channel.
Also this Monday (10), after Comprova tried to contact him via the press office, Janones deleted the verified tweet.
No evidence of the alleged invitation was found.
Bolsonaro Collor’s ally and the president’s own caption, the PL, composed the petebista ticket to the government of Alagoasthat ended defeated in the first round, on the 2nd of October. Even so, Bolsonaro never made any statement, in public record, stating that he invited him to compose his government in an eventual second term.
Bolsonaro’s government plan does not provide for confiscation
O government plan presented to the Electoral Court by Bolsonaro’s reelection campaign does not list any changes or reforms in the structure of Brazilian social security. The document only states that, in an eventual second term, the Bolsonaro government “will continue and strengthen the improvement of the pension system, with the objective of guaranteeing financial sustainability and social justice”.
Janones associates Bolsonaro with Collor and confiscation since at least October 7
This is not the first time that Janones has associated the president with Collor and the confiscation of pensions. On his Twitter profile alone, the deputy published at least seven tweets with the piece of disinformation. The oldest content found is from Friday (7). Using the Wayback Machine web-based content registration tool, Comprova archived the tweets to preserve evidence in case Janones deletes them from his account.
In one of these tweets, published on Saturday (8), Janones shared a print of an alleged journalistic article with the title “Bolsonaro confirms that former president Collor will be his minister in case of victory”. In this case, Janones uses the same ploy as his post that distorts Bolsonaro’s interview with Pilhado. He claims to be reposting content whose veracity would not be known: “Does anyone know if this is true?”.
The print shows a page diagrammed along the lines of Globo’s G1 news site. The fact-checking agency magnifying glass denied that the G1 had published such an article.
Comprova also found a video published on Janones’s official channel, on Saturday (8), with the title “URGENTE LIVE: AID BRAZIL, RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS CAN BE CONFISCATED!! UNDERSTAND:”. In it, the deputy states: “Ex-president Fernando Collor de Mello, Collor, is coming back, as Minister of Social Security, most likely. And the benefits that the Brazilian people won with so much struggle, such as Auxílio Brasil and maybe even retirements, pensions, are starting to be at risk, since Collor has this long history of confiscating the money of the Brazilian people.”
Comprova archived, through the Wayback Machine, this video as well.
Who is André Janones?
Janones, 38 years old, is a federal deputy Minas Gerais since 2019, after being elected to Congress for the first time the previous year. he was the third most voted candidate in the state, obtaining 178,660, or 1.77%, of the valid votes. Janones is known for his influence on social media – he has 7.9 million on Facebook. So, in his re-election this year, got 238,967, or 2.13% of the valid votes, being the second most voted candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in Minas Gerais. He got 30,000 more votes than the third place and was only behind Nikolas Ferreira (PL), who had the biggest vote in the history of the state.
Before running for reelection, however, Janones was the candidate of his party, Avante, for the Presidency of the Republic. The legend itself made the candidacy official on July 23. In the Datafolha survey at the end of that month, Janones had 1% of voting intentions. the deputy withdrew from the candidacy less than two weeks later, in exchange for supporting Lula (PT) and integrating the former president’s campaign on social networks. As described the magazine piauí“he acts with autonomy, but also executes demands of the PT campaign”.
His performance in the networks for the election of Lula has already been described by press vehicles as “dirty service” (O Estado de S. Paulo) and “aggressive and ‘joking’” (G1). he is also compared to Rio de Janeiro councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans), son 02 of Jair Bolsonaro and infamous for spreading disinformation and attacking rivals on social media. Behind the scenes of the presidential debate on August 28, at Band studios, in São Paulo, Janones provoked Bolsonaro’s allies and led to a fight with former Bolsonaro minister and now deputy elected by São Paulo Ricardo Salles (PL).
why do we investigate: Comprova investigates suspicious content that goes viral on the internet related to the 2022 presidential elections, the pandemic and public policies of the federal government. The content investigated here misleadingly attributes the confiscation of pensions in the event of the re-election of Jair Bolsonaro. Disinformation is a practice harmful to democracy, because the population has the right to make their choices based on reliable content.
Other checks on the topic: The news site the antagonist also denied the Janones post verified here, while the fact-checking agency Magnifying glass denounced another piece of disinformation, cited here and shared by the deputy, who attributes to the G1 an article associating Bolsonaro with Collor and the confiscation of pensions.
Comprova has already verified content of disinformation that accused the PT and the defeated candidate Ciro Gomes (PDT) of confiscating assets. A fake video claimed that the confiscation would be foreseen “in the PT statute”. Another check found that they are the messages circulating on WhatsApp saying that PT has a project to confiscate savings and that it will automatically be approved if the party’s candidate, Fernando Haddad (PT), or even Ciro, wins the election.
Investigated by: Crusoé, Tribuna do Norte, O Dia and Estado de S.Paulo; Verified by: Correio Braziliense, Plural Curitiba, Estado de Minas, Metrópoles, Correio, SBT, SBT News and A Gazeta
Source: CNN Brasil
