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Legal Experts Warn Court on WhatsApp Ban

Summary by The Rio Times
More than 100 legal experts told Brazil’s electoral court on 21 October that blocking big WhatsApp channels would alter the runoff race. Read the details.

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Ministers Kassio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça, president and vice-president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), respectively, analyze the possibility of blocking political channels of WhatsApp with more than 200,000 members 48 hours before the second round of elections. The measure would reach the Lula Army, created by the federal deputy André Janones (Rede-MG) and which already has more than 7 million members. The transmission list is co…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The measure, if approved, would reach in full the 'Army of Lula', coordinated by André Janones

·São Paulo, Brazil
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Mendonça and Kassio propose to ban political WhatsApp channels in 48 hours pre-2nd turn

·São Paulo, Brazil
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Nunes Marques and André Mendonça. Photo: Disclosure/STFO President of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Kassio Nunes Marques and the Vice President, Minister André Mendonça circulated a minute of resolution to disable all channels of WhatsApp with political content and more than 200,000 users in the 48 hours before and 24 hours after the second round of the 2026 elections, scheduled for the [...] The post WhatsApp: Kassio Nunes Marque…

The plan was to close the channel 48 hours before the election. The indignation was general. Lula does not stop growing and is taking care of the internet. Extreme-right is atoned The attempt of Kassio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça, ministers of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), to take out of the air the Lula Army channel after [...] The post Kássio had to retreat from censorship to the channel of Lula that already exceeds 7 million support…

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UOL broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
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