LatinNews Daily - 16 June 2026

*The office of Brazil’s solicitor general (AGU), the legal counsel of the federal government, has filed a request to intervene in a US court case involving accusations of illegal censorship. The lawsuit emerged in February last year, when US video sharing platform Rumble and the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), controlled by US President Donald Trump, filed accusations of censorship against Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had previously ordered the suspension of Rumble in Brazil. De Moraes had banned Rumble due to its refusal to comply with Brazilian court orders, such as a failure to block the accounts of far-right Brazilian content creators linked to the spread of hate speech and disinformation, as well as Rumble’s failure to appoint a legal representative in Brazil. The AGU declared yesterday that the Brazilian State must be admitted as a participant in the US court proceedings, arguing that the accusations were not merely brought against a private individual but against a judicial decision of the STF. The AGU’s statement added that “Brazilian judicial decisions must be enforced or challenged before our own courts, in accordance with the procedural law in force in Brazil”, describing the lawsuit as “an attempt to offend national sovereignty”.