Tweeting about the case Wednesday, Ferreira wrote, “They want to disappear me from the internet.”

He tends to post evangelical and far-right content, and support for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.īrazilian authorities are still investigating after hundreds of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed government buildings in the capital Brasilia earlier in January, following his defeat in a presidential run-off vote last year.įerreira’s social media savvy has played a part in catapulting the 26-year-old’s political career forward in 2022, he was elected with the most votes of all representatives running nationwide, and the third most votes cast for any representative in Brazil’s history. Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes fined the messaging app Telegram on Wednesday for not suspending the account of a far-right elected official and social media influencer, according to a statement from the Supreme Court.Įarlier in January, the court ordered Telegram to suspend Nikolas Ferreira’s accounts and others “to stop the spread of criminal manifestations,” the statement said.įailure to suspend Ferreira’s account “is considered indirect collaboration to the continuing of criminal activities,” the court said.įerreira, a federal representative from the state of Minas Gerais, has more than 300,000 subscribers on Telegram, 3.6 million followers on Tik Tok, and over 6 million followers on Instagram.

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