In 2019, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) asked the Portuguese Wikipedia to delete the page for its minister, Abraham Weintraub, and threatened legal action.
In 2019, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) asked the Portuguese Wikipedia to delete the page for its minister, Abraham Weintraub, and threatened legal action.
On April 8, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro announced on his Twitter that Abraham Weintraub would succeed Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez as Brazil's Minister of Education (MEC). A Portuguese Wikipedia page for Weintraub was created about three hours later. [1] Following multiple vandalisms, Portuguese Wikipedia administrator Chronus protected the page against edits from inexperienced users for 45 days. [2] The article included detailed controversies about the minister, such as the unsuccessful attempt of Weintraub and his brother to have their father declared legally incapacitated in court, accusations of nepotism due to his and his family's positions at the Federal University of São Paulo, his claim that there was "disorder" on federal university campuses, the budget cuts imposed on universities and federal institutes, a Twitter video where Weintraub claims that the MEC is a victim of fake news to the sound of "Singing in the Rain", his stance on student protests opposing the government, and his encouragement for teachers and students who supported the protests to be reported. [2] [3] [4]
On June 27, the MEC's Social Communication Office emailed Chronus asking for Weintraub's article to be deleted. According to them, the page contained "unverified information" that could lead to "ambiguous interpretations", justifying the request with the ministry's "inability to edit" the content; [1] the office tried to edit the article themselves, but their edits were reverted. [4] Chronus posted the email on the Portuguese Wikipedia forum on July 1, asking other editors for help on how to proceed. Chronus stated that he did not intend to respond to the ministry's email as communication should have been directed to the Wikimedia Foundation. The editors suggested that he request more clarity from the MEC. [1] An hour after the message was posted on the forum, an editor marked Weitraub's page as needing review. [1] The event was covered by Estadão [2] and led the daily views of the page to increase from less than 200 on June 26 to over 23,000 on July 4. [5]
Between 1 and 4 July, 25 edits were made to Weintraub's page, including the removal of a "controversies" section. On the article's talk page, editors discussed how the budget cuts imposed by Weintraub should be described. [6] The editors worked on restructuring the article but did not remove controversial information. [2] Following the event, the Portuguese Wikipedia's editors wrote a collective statement about how Wikipedia operates and the request to delete Weintraub's article, which was prominently placed on the article's page. [5]
On August 13, the MEC emailed the Portuguese Wikipedia administrator Rodrigo Padula , requesting that the page be unlocked for editing so that Weintraub could "exercise his right to a full defense and counterarguments", specifically mentioning that he disagreed with how his imposed budget cuts were described on the page. The MEC threatened legal action, stating that, if Wikipedia didn't respond in five days, this would be "taken as a refusal to comply with this request, leading to the adoption of appropriate legal measures". [7] Padula had previously contacted the MEC about the matter, saying that he offered to give a lecture and provide training on Wikipedia's dynamics to guide and train the ministry's team. [8] Padula responded to the August 13 email the next day, [8] explaining Wikipedia's rules and making himself available to explain how the website works to the MEC. [9] He also unprotected the page, not because of the email but because he felt a protection was not needed. [8] [9] However, after new vandalism edits, it was protected again. [10] Padula saw MEC's threat as a censorship attempt. [8] [10]
On September 4, Federal Deputy Marcelo Freixo filed a formal request for the minister to provide clarification on why the ministry's office was being used to address personal interests of Weintraub on Wikipedia. In a speech Freixo made on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies, he said of the case: "This is serious, it is not republican, and it is unworthy of a position such as Minister of Education to have someone so shallow, someone with such petty initiatives". [4] Responding to his request, Weintraub confirmed that he used the workforce of the MEC to attempt to delete his article. [11]
At an unspecified date, Weintraub sued the Wikimedia Foundation as his page contained "exclusively defamatory content", including the information that one of his former advisors attempted to edit the article to align with his perspective. In 2023, the 8th Civil Court of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJ-SP) ruled against the lawsuit, finding that Weintraub failed to prove that the content was false and did not specify, point by point, which information bothered him. The presiding judge also dismissed the case. [12]
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