The Biden-era State Department promoted censorship in Brazil, according to documents highlighted by former State Department official and free speech advocate Mike Benz.
The State Department’s “Integrated Country Strategy” for Brazil warned about “disinformation during elections and on social media” and promised to “support Brazil’s democratic institutions by providing training, capacity building, and engagement.” Benz wrote via X on Sunday that this 2022-era document served as “Yet another smoking gun” revealing the “deliberate” and “top-down” construction of Brazil’s censorship apparatus by the Biden-era State Department. The strategy explicitly singled out "disinformation on social media" as something it would ‘capacity-build’ to stop.”
