Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kje5jRdpCg [8:26] (Amost all videos on the channel have links associated with Proton)
Paulo Figueiredo, grandson of General João Baptista Figueiredo, the last Brazilian president during the military dictatorship, is a far-right coup-supporting influencer considered a fugitive and currently residing in the USA. He is accused of participating in the attempted coup d’état of January 8, 2023, in Brazil, of working with US authorities to punish Brazilian officials for the legal proceedings against former coup-supporting president Jair Bolsonaro, and is a target of the fake news inquiry, which investigates, among other crimes, plans to assassinate politicians and judges of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
The influencer was a business partner of Donald Trump, a relationship that led to his arrest in the US for involvement in a bribery scheme at BRB (a state-owned bank in the Brazilian capital).
Figueiredo is selling a course on politics and history aligned with far-right ideas, having offered it to seven congressmen who support Jair Bolsonaro, a staunch defender of the Brazilian military dictatorship financed by the USA, on the eve of Trump’s inauguration for a second term in January 2025.
This is not “plurality.” This is not “respecting the other side.” It is the normalization of figures who should be unanimously considered criminals for attacking democratic institutions and freedoms.
Given all this “operational error” by Proton’s sponsors, I see that any user with democratic awareness on some internet privacy forum seems to be better than their global communications team.
THIS EXCUSE DOESN’T WORK!
OC by @Onyx376@lemmy.ml
Since it’s a link to a video and not a respected news source, I’d say it’s probably just BS
It appears to be OC from ML? So there must be some kind of “crush the west” angle to this.
This shit going around about Proton is 100% FUD. They are one of the most widely known privacy-focused cloud services providers.
ML just love to burn everything because they hate themselves and want everyone to hate themselves too.
True, but it’s not just ML.
Probably, MLs view of far right is questionable…do note I haven’t looked into the channel so maybe it’s applicable, I just take that term with a massive grain of salt coming from ML