Brazil's Moraes Orders Operation Targeting Alleged Source of Reports on Fellow Justice
The Spin
Narrative A
Moraes just proved his tyrannical nature again: he sent federal police after a journalist's source over reporting on a fellow justice's improper use of an official car. First the reporter's phone, now his source's home raided — sourcebook confidentiality be damned. Moraes attacks whoever embarrasses the Court. The press that once celebrated him built its own censor. Brazil should be alarmed.
Narrative B
This case isn't about press freedom. Brazilian institutions are tackling a paid surveillance operation against a Supreme Court justice that took place under the guise of journalism. Tens of thousands of dollars funneled to a blogger who tracked and published routes, vehicles and security details for Brazil's second-most death-threatened justice. Moraes is legitimately stopping a financed plot to paint a target on a colleague's back.
