David Ágape

David Ágape stated that, almost a week before the first round, Lula announced the end of the bets, but that the underground game of Tigrinho continued to be active. The author classified the measure as hypocritical and said that Lula's government had sanctioned the online casinos law, licensed the market, and collected R$ 2.55 billion in grants without returning the money. Ágape also challenged the idea that regulation would end clandestineness. According to him, on the first day after the deadline, The Investigation found ads for casinos on Instagram that were not listed by the Treasury. Influencers with up to 11 million followers allegedly directed the public to six underground establishments, some of which accepted deposits via Pix. https://t.co/1V9t284QDz #Lula #Cassinos #Bets (translated)

David Ágape wrote that a security report from OpenAI identified two clandestine influence operations, one Russian and the other Iranian, that allegedly used the company's artificial intelligence to insert content into media outlets. In Brazil, according to him, the document attributed to the Russian operation a comparison between the governments of Jair Bolsonaro and Lula, published by the Social Research Center (SRC) under the guise of research. The article associated Bolsonaro with institutional wear and Lula with the recovery of the country's credibility. Ágape also stated that operators attempted to claim authorship of a report from Poder360. https://t.co/9YgGIZ65w7 #ChatGPT #SegurançaDigital #Desinformação (translated)

David Ágape stated that the PT deputy Ana Elisa deleted her profile on X after controversial posts went viral, but that they had been saved. According to him, Lula's campaign was irritated with the deputy because they believed she harmed the president's image. Ágape said the posts included racist statements, requests for Lula to close churches, and an accusation he classified as false against Flávio Bolsonaro, claiming he wanted to revoke the title of patroness. He also stated that Ana Elisa had expressed support for abortion after the 22nd week of pregnancy, about five and a half months. https://t.co/jtaXPWh4T8 #Política #Lula #AnaElisa (translated)

David Ágape identified Judge João Marcos Buch of the Santa Catarina Court of Justice (TJSC) as the author of a publication that, according to him, revived the 2018 rumor that Jair Bolsonaro would persecute gay people. Ágape stated that Bolsonaro did not persecute this group. The author also mentioned that Buch sentenced Professor Jonas Bressan to two years in prison and ordered him to pay R$ 10,000 for collective moral damages for a message forwarded in a WhatsApp group on the eve of the second round of elections in 2022. According to Ágape, the Civil Police had archived the investigation. Ágape further reported that in a Christmas letter sent to prisoners in 2021, Buch criticized inequalities and racism in Brazil and the Brazilian government. At the inauguration ceremony on March 7, 2025, the judge reportedly said that the country was flirting with fascism and publicly declared his love for his husband, Lucas Buch. According to Ágape, a year later, the Civil Police of Espírito Santo executed search and seizure warrants at Lucas's address in Florianópolis. He stated that the operation was authorized by the courts at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Espírito Santo and was part of an investigation into fraud and embezzlement, with an estimated loss of R$ 3.5 million. According to the author, the records described the victim as elderly, vulnerable, and residing abroad. https://t.co/hbxC7B2HDF #Justiça #DireitosHumanos #Fascismo (translated)

David Ágape said that, in the first round, he maintained journalistic neutrality and did not ask for votes, not even from friends. For the second round, he declared support for Flávio Bolsonaro and stated that a null vote was not appropriate in the face of the opponent, whom he accused of corruption and being an ally of Xandão, in addition to using derogatory language to describe him. Regarding a photo in which he appeared following his testimony from the Vaza Toga, Ágape stated that Flávio Bolsonaro would be the future president of Brazil. #Eleições2022 #Brasil #Política (translated)

David Ágape stated that the A Investigação team had completed a job after months of investigative coverage and sleepless nights. He said he would continue investigating regardless of the election outcome and asked for support through a subscription of R$ 15 per month. https://t.co/dJeZehDNiU #Investigação #Jornalismo #Apoio (translated)

David Ágape stated that he identified the advertisement among 1,428 electoral propaganda pieces against Flávio Bolsonaro. According to him, the page Mosaico Vivo published the piece between September 10 and 18, with an estimated expenditure of between $7,000 and $8,000 — about R$36,000 to R$42,000 — and an estimated reach by Meta of 6.5 million accounts in Brazil. The page had eight followers in the record preserved by Ágape's team, and Meta removed the advertisement for violating political advertising rules. The author identified the man in the video as Don Ernesto, a singer and presenter for TVT, a station maintained by the Metal Workers Union of ABC and the Union of Bank and Financial Workers of São Paulo, Osasco, and the region. In the video, Don Ernesto criticized Flávio and called him "the worst of the Bolsonaros." Ágape emphasized that his image's presence did not indicate that he or the station participated in the purchase of the advertisement. According to the transparency fields from Meta cited by Ágape, Corporativo Lam, LLC was listed as the declared advertiser and payer. He stated that the same company had shown, through its verified account on Google in Venezuela, campaigns of government bodies of Nicolás Maduro before promoting Brazilian sites that attacked Flávio. Ágape said that the person responsible for the initiative against the senator was still unknown. https://t.co/BAPcGa6q2g #Eleições2022 #FlávioBolsonaro #PublicidadePolítica (translated)

David Ágape stated that electoral disputes have begun to be taken to ministers of the Supreme Federal Court through old processes, without a new drawing, which, according to him, emasculated the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He compared the situation to the election of 2022, when Alexandre de Moraes presided over the TSE and was part of the STF, and said that, for many, decisions against Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters were decisive for Lula's victory. According to Ágape, Gilmar Mendes granted a preliminary injunction to include Renan Santos in a Globo debate, although he acknowledged that the topic did not fit within a complaint about Deltan Dallagnol. He stated that subsequent requests regarding electoral disputes in Bahia and Paraná were also presented in this complaint. Ágape added that the PT requested Flávio Dino, within an ADPF regarding mining, an investigation into alleged foreign interference in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro; in another complaint related to Dallagnol, Dino suspended an order from the TSE. Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign, he said, appealed to Luiz Fux to challenge the intervention, in a process that was already addressing the removal of content on the internet. Ágape concluded that Edson Fachin tried to organize the situation, but it was too late. https://t.co/tRVnTKz9aT #STF #TSE #Eleições2022 (translated)

David Ágape stated that the Electoral Justice shut down an anonymous website that, according to him, was used by Eduardo Paes against Douglas Ruas. The author said that the page did not appear in Paes' campaign records, concealed its responsible parties, and had been published by the creator of Dilma Bolada as part of an old boss's campaign. Ágape added that the TRE-RJ classified the website as negative electoral propaganda and pointed out that it was hosted in California, in the United States, and linked to a mobile phone registered in Lithuania. He also requested support for his work via a Pix to [email protected]. #JustiçaEleitoral #Eleições2023 #PropagandaNegativa (translated)

David Ágape stated that the Papo em Rede profile went offline after one of his reports. He said that the page connected an alleged campaign against Flávio Bolsonaro to Maduro's government program and claimed that the content could be recovered through legal means. https://t.co/f5nug1VhUO #queimaArquivo #transparência #justiça (translated)

David Ágape stated that an investigation identified a network of websites and sponsored pages with ads against Flávio Bolsonaro. According to him, the company responsible had also advertised, on the same Google account, campaigns for government agencies of Maduro. Ágape wrote that the PT brought the network to Flávio Dino's office at the STF, as a possible case of foreign interference, and recorded 138 ads against Lula. The investigation reportedly identified over 600 attacks against Flávio Bolsonaro. According to the author, the company was registered in Delaware, United States, and there were traces leading to the Dominican Republic, but the person responsible for the initiative remained unknown. He added that the ads once again boosted videos from the Lula–Alckmin coalition that called Flávio “the worst of the Bolsonaros.” https://t.co/BAPcGa6q2g #FlávioBolsonaro #interferênciaestrangeira #fakeNews (translated)

In recent days, a website has been launched that allows you to redo the counts of each ballot box with data from the TSE. The site https://t.co/EKfcYCrSRP is created by Letícia Padilha (@lpadilhaoficial), who worked for years in the intelligence area of the Federal Police, and created the free panel with official data from the TSE. The first round is scheduled for October 4. After the voting ends, the TSE will publish the received bulletins for totalization on the internet. They can be compared with the printed bulletins at the polling places. https://t.co/8NHdeMtI91 #Eleições2024 #TSE #Transparência (translated)

Two days after Fux suspended his order in the case of the false threat to Our Lady of Aparecida, Flávio Dino called on the Federal Police to investigate a supposed "wave" of attacks on religious images. We checked, one by one, the 11 records he gathered. There is a case from 2025, cases with already identified authors, and an investigation that the police had concluded before the decision. In another case, the store owner expressly stated that it was not a matter of religious intolerance. There are at least two cases with strong indications of schizophrenia. Dino compiled these episodes without presenting a historical series that shows an increase in attacks or a connection between their perpetrators. The report shows what exists in each case and presents important context regarding the 2018 elections. https://t.co/V9CfSC3C2G #LiberdadeReligiosa #IntolerânciaReligiosa #Justiça (translated)

In a post on X, the creator of Dilma Bolada confesses that the site is part of a parallel campaign of his former boss against @DouglasRuas_RJ. An anonymous site created 5 days ago, which claims to have already had more than 1.3 million accesses, uses a system to hide the responsible party and was not included in the campaign record of @eduardopaes. Candidates have already had their campaign blocked because of this. https://t.co/sIgcbZX9tl #Política #Eleições #Campanha (translated)

In a post on X, the creator of Dilma Bolada confesses that the site is part of a parallel campaign by his former boss against @DouglasRuas_RJ. Anonymous site created 5 days ago, which claims to have already had over 1.3 million accesses, uses a system to hide the responsible party and was not included in the campaign record of @eduardopaes. Candidates have already had campaigns blocked because of this. Learn more: https://t.co/sIgcbZWBDN https://t.co/sIgcbZWBDN #Campanha #Eleições2024 #Política (translated)

The creator of Dilma Bolada denies spreading the narrative about Our Lady against Flávio Bolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro). However, this is the third election in which he tries to create the same narrative! Coincidence? And more: who is paying the bill? We are following a trail that is at least intriguing with connections to Eduardo Paes and Marcelo Freixo. https://t.co/sIgcbZWBDN #Política #Eleições2024 #Confusão (translated)

Exclusivo Aborto: Plano de governo de Flávio Bolsonaro é o único a defender a vida desde a concepção A Investigação comparou os planos das 13 candidaturas presidenciais reunidas pelo Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Flávio Bolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro) é o único que inclui entre seus valores o respeito à “vida desde a concepção”. O candidato já declarou que pretende indicar ao Supremo Tribunal Federal ministros contrários ao procedimento. Três candidatos de esquerda defendem o aborto legal ou sua legalização. Lula se omite, mas seu governo reduziu barreiras e facilitou o procedimento previsto em lei. Demais canditados se omitem sobre o tema. https://t.co/mBgdJ17Otz #Aborto #DireitosHumanos #PolíticaBrasil

Exclusivo: Hoje, uma semana antes do primeiro turno das eleições, Lula teve a cara de pau de usar uma tragédia para defender a proibição das bets. Lula usou em sua campanha o caso de Ângela Maria Camilo da Paz, que tirou a sua vida em 12 de dezembro de 2023. Tinha R$ 500 mil em dívidas nos apps Crash e Double da Blaze. No mesmo dia da morte de Ângela, no Senado, o PT votou contra uma emenda de @carlosfportinho que buscava tirar do projeto exatamente o mesmo o tipo de jogo que destruiu a vida de Angela — cassino on-line de gerador aleatório. A emenda passou mesmo assim. Dez dias depois a Câmara recolocou esses jogos no texto. Nenhum dos 58 petistas presentes votou para barrá-los. Em 29 de dezembro Lula sancionou a lei. A Foggo, operadora da Blaze, pagou R$ 30 milhões de outorga no primeiro aniversário da morte de Ângela. A área técnica da Fazenda escreveu que não conseguia avaliar a origem dos R$ 35 milhões da empresa. A SPA aprovou pela “presunção de veracidade” e aceitou como sócia brasileira uma holding de R$ 10 mil controlada da Ilha de Man. Arquivos de Curaçao mostram os mesmos dois donos no fim da cadeia: Nick van Gorsel e Nicholas Beugg, patrimônio declarado de € 1,3 bilhão (R$ 7,7 bi). Agora Lula extingue as 85 autorizações, tenta ficar com R$ 2,55 bilhões em outorgas e leva Ângela para a campanha — contra a bet que o governo dele mesmo licenciou. https://t.co/Y35XKlOHpj #Eleições2023 #Lula #JogosOnline