RIO DE JANEIRO — Even as Jair Bolsonaro begins to give up power, his staunchest supporters refuse to accept defeat in Brazil’s presidential election, crying foul on the Internet and in the streets.
For nearly two weeks they’ve protested President-elect Luiz Inacio da Silva’s Oct. 30 victory, rallying around unproven claims of fraud. And the most social-media savvy are blasting conspiracies about vote rigging to millions of followers.
Electoral authorities are hitting back. Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice and Brazil’s elections chief, has ordered the suspension of online accounts belonging to some of Bolsonaro’s most prominent allies in a renewed crackdown on misinformation and alleged attacks on democratic institutions.
