Brazil's Bolsonaro asks top court to unblock supporters' profiles amid fake news probe


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  • Monday, 27 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro holds a banana before a ceremony of lowering the national flag for the night, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, July 24, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged a Supreme Court order that blocked several of his supporters' profiles on social networks amid an ongoing fake news investigation, the right-wing president said using his own social media accounts on Saturday evening.

The lawsuit, signed by the president and Brazil's Solicitor General José Levi, says the ruling granted by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes violates the constitutional rights of the owners of the accounts.

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