Overview
- Minister Alexandre de Moraes last week authorized search-and-seizure measures that identified the source of journalist Luís Pablo, prompting criticism from press groups over breach of source confidentiality.
- During a Primeira Turma hearing, ministers Flávio Dino and Alexandre de Moraes said the 2009 STF ruling that removed the diploma requirement should be reconsidered because it complicates defining who merits press protections.
- Dino argued that extending journalistic guarantees to all online publishers risks protecting actors tied to criminal groups, and Moraes said source secrecy is not absolute when information amounts to disinformation or involves crimes.
- Press organizations including Fenaj and Abraji publicly demanded protection for sources and urged either a legislative fix—the long-stalled PEC 206/2012—or a court re‑examination; no formal rehearing or new law has been started.
- Coverage and official documents show mixed factual threads: a PF intelligence report said it found no clear evidence that the blogger committed the crime Moraes cited, yet the minister maintained there were relevant indications that justified the judicial measures.