Site that displayed Vorcaro's conversations is blocked at the request of Bahia's PT
Graduated in journalism from Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho. Reporter for Revista Oeste since September 2024.
TL;DR
- The Bahia Regional Electoral Court (TRE-BA) has ordered the takedown of the MasterWhats website.
- The website contained messages extracted from the cellphone of Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of Banco Master.
- The order came after a lawsuit by the More Bahia, More Brazil Coalition, linked to Senate candidate Jaques Wagner (PT).
- The coalition argued that the messages attributed to Wagner were false and deliberately created to mislead voters.
- The judge ordered NIC.br to suspend the content or block the domain recomendeme.com.br if individual removal was not possible.
- The website's owner, Lucas Matheus Alves da Silva, stated he received no prior notification and learned of the judicial block through his hosting provider.
- Silva claimed MasterWhats organized information previously published by the press and the Federal Police.
- The blocking also affected Silva's movie, series, and music recommendation social network, RecomendeMe.
- MasterWhats contained over 65,000 messages and allowed searches involving authorities like STF minister Alexandre de Moraes and former Central Bank official Paulo Sérgio Neves de Souza.
- The platform reportedly received 1.5 million accesses in 15 days.