Parliamentarian claims to have made a complaint to the STF, TSE and PGR; agency denies participation and says it is the victim of ‘organized attacks’
Federal deputy Daniel Freitas (PL-SC) says he has filed a complaint against Mynd with the STF (Supreme Federal Court), the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and the PGR (Attorney General’s Office).
On social media, the parliamentarian also stated that he would file a request to break the banking and telephone confidentiality of Mynd businesspeople. Daniel Freitas also asks for it to be clarified whether or not there was any responsibility on the part of Mynd for what was published on the Choquei profile.
In the last week of 2023, social networks were flooded with fake news involving comedian Whindersson Nunes and Jessica Canedo. A post, first published by the Blog’s Garotx profile, said that the young woman was Whindersson’s affair and the information contained prints of an alleged conversation between the two.
I am also filing for the breaking of banking and telephone confidentiality of the business owners who own the agency.
— Daniel Freitas (@DFDanielFreitas) January 3, 2024
Both denied the veracity of the conversation, stating that they had never spoken and that they did not know each other, but this did not stop other gossip profiles from reposting the publication, including Choquei, which has more than 20 million followers on the network.
With the massive dissemination of fake news on the networks, Jssica began to receive a sequence of hateful messages and online harassment, which would have led the young woman, who already suffered from severe depression, to commit suicide. Whindersson Nunes spoke about the case, lamenting the young woman’s death.
Negative repercussion
The case gained more repercussion after the release of the video ‘Choquei Lacrando Vidas’, by influencer Daniel Penin. In the material, published three days ago and with more than 3 million views as of this Friday morning (5), Penin shows how gossip pages work, in addition to accusing Mynd as an alleged ‘operator’ of this mechanism.
Soon, then, Mynd’s name came into the discussion as some of the profiles that shared the publication were part of Banca Digital, a company project led by Murilo Henare and which brings together around 30 Instagram entertainment accounts, such as the ‘Blog Girl’.
Choquei even became part of Digital Banking, but has not been part of the casting since 2022.
With all the negative repercussions, Mynd even deleted Digital Banking from the part of the website that included the names that made up the company’s casting. The Blog’s Garotx profile is offline and, since the beginning of 2024, the Mynd website is also no longer available.
What does Mynd say
O propmark contacted Mynd in order to find out specifically the agency’s position on the complaint filed by federal deputy Daniel Freitas. In the report, Mynd informed that its only position on the matter is in the note released this Thursday (4).
In this note, published on its social networks, Mynd stated that it is being the victim of ‘virtual lynching’ and denied any involvement in the dissemination of fake news involving Whindersson Nunes and Jssica Canedo.
“We are an influencer marketing agency. We handle exclusively the intermediation of advertising sales on profiles on social networks and we do not participate at any time in the definition of the personal content posted on the profiles we serve. We do not own any news content profile or related”, informed the company.
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