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Brazil's Bolsonaro calls Fb motion suspending aides' accounts 'persecution'

Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro criticized Fb Inc on Thursday for suspending accounts of his supporters however not of his leftist opponents in what he known as unwarranted "persecution," including that no hate postings have been to be discovered on his account.
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro criticized Facebook Inc on Thursday for suspending accounts of his supporters but not of his leftist opponents in what he called unwarranted "persecution," adding that no hate postings were to be found on his account.

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