Polygraph fact checks Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's Facebook post, Monday, May 4, saying he did not see any attacks against the media during a rally the previous day.
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READ MORE: Mocking Brazil’s biggest independent news network Rede Globo as “Fantasy” TV, Bolsonaro told his Facebook followers: “TV Globo at Fantasy yesterday dedicated itself to attacks on President Jair Bolsonaro, due to the fact that a photographer from Jornal O Estado de SP was attacked by some possible infiltrators at the peaceful demonstration. We also condemn violence.”
Bolsonaro added that he did not see any attacks on journalists, only “the joy of the people.”
The claim is misleading.
Video reports from the rally tell a different story, and the Reuters news agency cited witnesses who said “at least three photographers were attacked by demonstrators” at Sunday’s rally of Bolsonaro supporters. According to Reuters, such incidents are “an increasingly routine occurrence in Brazil, where Bolsonaro routinely calls the work of major newspapers ‘fake news’.”
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