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Supreme Court shelves the 'Fake News Inquiry.' But its credibility crisis stays open

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, right, who kept the fake news inquiry open for more than seven years, and Chief Justice Edson Fachin, who shelved it on Monday. Photo: Luiz Silveira/STF

Justice Alexandre de Moraes (right), who kept the fake news inquiry open for more than seven years, and Chief Justice Edson Fachin, who shelved it on Monday. Photo: Luiz Silveira/STF

Edson Fachin, the Brazilian Supreme Court chief justice, on Nov. 9 shelved the so-called "Fake News Inquiry," an investigation the court opened on its own initiative in Mar. 2019 to pursue threats and smears against its justices…

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