The Supreme Court (STF) decided, on Monday, to definitively archive the fake news investigation, an inquiry opened in March 2019 that lasted more than seven years. The decision was made by the President of the Court, Edson Fachin, at the request of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), who maintained that the procedure had already met its initial objective. Fachin argued in his determination that investigations cannot remain indefinitely open to future events, especially when the complexity of the facts has already been elucidated.
The 4.781 investigation originally aimed to investigate threats and attacks against ministers and the Court, but its scope evolved to include financing structures and mass *posts* on social networks with the intent to undermine the independence of the Judiciary. Over the years, the investigation followed events such as the "hate cabinet", questions to electronic ballot boxes, the coup acts of January 8 and the lobby of Eduardo Bolsonaro in the United States. With the decision to archive, more than 12 thousand pages of records will be made public, except documents containing personal data or bank, tax and telephone confidentiality restricted.