Brazil

[Peter Lemkin]

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[TD]The Intercept was created and designed to ensure that we could engage in fearless, independent, and adversarial journalism. As a result, we have been repeatedly targeted by powerful factions inside the U.S., including a particularly stringent attempt by the Justice Department to investigate our sources and malign our journalism.

Similar and worse attacks are now being mounted against us in the newly authoritarian Brazil, as a result of our unique coverage of the far-right movement, Jair Bolsanaro, and the institutions that have empowered them prior to the election last weekend

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[TD]Shortly before the election, the nation's second-largest media conglomerate, owned by the billionaire evangelical pastor and Bolsonaro supporter Edir Macedo, investigated not only editors and journalists who contribute reporting to The Intercept, but also their family members. Large corporate media outlets in Brazil have filed a lawsuit seeking to have the Intercept Brasil, along with several other foreign media outlets, barred from reporting in the country.

Since we began regularly reporting on Brazil in 2016, our audience and reach has exploded. Some of the most widely read articles in The Intercept's history have been in Portuguese, and leading Brazilian political figures now turn to us for their most important interviews. They know the value and impact of the unique platform we've built.

This has happened because the in-depth reporting we do is extremely rare in Brazil, where the media landscape is dominated by large conglomerates and independent outlets are few and far between. We have been able to apply the same adversarial, intrepid approach to investigative journalism that we use in the U.S. to Brazil, where, with the election of a genuine and frightening tyrant, it is needed now more than ever.

In 2018 alone, our audience size expanded rapidly, and we were able to produce reports that reverberated throughout the world:[/TD]
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• We published exclusive investigations about the 2018 elections, sending our reporters to every corner of Brazil to reveal corruption, contradictions, and the ground truth of how power is won (or taken) in this country. We've also conducted contentious, informative interviews with presidential candidates that were seen by millions.
  
• We exposed political pressure within R7, a "news" portal owned by billionaire pastor Edir Macedo, to support Bolsonaro's campaign and only publish negative news about the Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad. After publication, R7 and Record TV began investigating us and our associates in retaliation.
  
• We dug deep into the assassination of Rio City Councillor Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, a case that became an international scandal. We were the first to report that militias likely had a hand in their murders, and we used original data to expose their massive scope.
  
• We lifted the curtain on the hidden influences behind pesticide regulations how mega-corporations work to corrupt public and private agents and put cheap and dangerous poisons in the hands of agriculture workers and on the our tables.
  
• We explained how Bolsonaro uses "fake news" to deflect attention from his own scandals and how far-right groups and public officials spread lies on the internet, an attack on the electoral process.
  
• We also provided top-notch coverage and analysis of world events: a censorship scandal at Google, the unfolding mayhem of the Trump presidency, revelations of global espionage, the global disaster of climate change, gang violence in El Salvador, right-wing extremism in Europe, or Chinese prison camps.
  

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[TD]Jair Bolsonaro poses a severe threat not just to human rights inside Brazil, but also internationally through his alliances with some of the world's most reactionary regimes. His brazen promises to bulldoze key policies that protect the Amazon literally put the fate of the world at risk. With his election, we want not only to maintain, but to aggressively expand our coverage. To do so, The Intercept needs your help.

We were blown away by the outpouring of support from our readers in our first crowdfunding campaign; it allowed us to take our election coverage to the next level. We don't want to stop there. Will you start a recurring contribution to support independent reporting in Brazil?
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[TD]Your recurring support is essential to our continued success and helps us make long-term investments into our reporting.

Thank you![/TD]
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[TD]Glenn Greenwald
Co-founder of The Intercept
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