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Private Companies Sponsored Pro-Bolsonaro WhatsApp Blasts
There is no indication that Bolsonaro or his campaign team knew that a company was hired to send messages in favor of the then candidate
Jun.18.2019 1:50PM
Patrícia Campos Mello
A CORUÑA
During the 2018 election campaign, private Brazilian companies hired a marketing agency in Spain to blast out, through WhatsApp, mass political messages in favor of then-presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL).
The information, which appears in recordings obtained by Folha, comes from the Spaniard Luis Novoa, owner of Enviawhatsapps. Novoa's company specializes in sending automatic messages to thousands of telephone numbers.
In the audios, he says that "Brazilian companies, butchers, car washers and factories" bought his software to send mass messages in favor of Bolsonaro.
In addition to obtaining the audio, Folha later confirmed details of the conversation.
According to Novoa, he did not know that his software was being used for political campaigns in Brazil and only became aware when WhatsApp banned accounts used his company, under the allegation of misuse.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/06/private-companies-sponsored-pro-bolsonaro-whatsapp-blasts.shtml
