Overview
- The MasterWhats site was reactivated on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, after TRE-BA judge Isaías Vinícius de Castro Simões homologated a request by the PT-led coligação 'Mais Bahia, Mais Brasil' to withdraw its removal suit.
- The coalition had argued the site published fabricated WhatsApp-style conversations attributed to Jaques Wagner and sought an emergency takedown, but it withdrew the claim before the platform filed a defense.
- TRE-BA ordered NIC.br to remove the targeted content or, if that was not technically possible, to block the entire RecomendeMe domain; NIC.br reported it could not surgically remove the item and executed a domain-level block that produced collateral outages.
- MasterWhats aggregates 66,387 messages dated Dec. 2023–Nov. 2025 drawn from Polícia Federal inquiries and other sources and uses a WhatsApp-like interface that lets users search, link to snippets, capture screenshots, and map calls.
- Developers say they temporarily removed disputed items for maintenance, published open-source code that third parties used to confirm there are no technical records of direct Vorcaro–Wagner exchanges, and the episode has renewed debate over labeling, provenance, and the proportionality of DNS-level takedowns during elections.