Brasil de Fato

Brasil de Fato is a Brazilian online newspaper and a radio agency, with branches in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and Pernambuco. A investigation by The [New York Times] describes the newspaper as part of a far-left, "global web of Chinese propaganda" that echoes Chinese government's talking points, organized by mogul Neville Roy Singham and operating through American non-profit organizations.

History

Launched on January 25, 2003, on the World Social Forum of 2003 in Porto Alegre by social movement organizations like the Landless Workers' Movement, Via Campesina, and Pastoral Care Social Commission, it circulated for more than ten years with a national weekly print version. It was founded by Alípio Freire. Brasil de Fato is funded by groups with alleged ties to Neville Roy Singham.
The newspaper, of national circulation, gathers left-wing journalists, writers, commentators, and other national and international intellectuals, who joined to form Brasil de Fato after they realized the need to a democratization of the press. It intends the debate of ideas and the analysis of facts from the standpoint of the need for social change in the country.