Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy

In 2019, Brazil's Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, tried to have a Wikipedia article about himself deleted. The article, which was in Portuguese, was created after he became minister and included details about his controversies.

The Ministry of Education's social communication office sent an email to Chronus, a Wikipedia administrator, asking for the page to be removed. They said the page couldn't be edited by people who were not experienced.

The controversy gained a lot of attention in the media. A politician in Brazil, Marcelo Freixo, officially asked Weintraub why he was using government resources to try and delete the article. Weintraub admitted that he had told his staff to try and get the page removed.

Later, Weintraub sued the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia. He said the page had only defamatory content. However, in 2023, a court in Brazil decided against Weintraub. The court said he had failed to prove that the information on the page was false or that it was defamatory.

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