Claim

Claim 851

The United States Embassy reported that government sources said the plan was to ease press restrictions on newspapers gradually, with suggestions of self-restraint already made to editors.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: The United States Embassy reported that government sources said the plan was to ease press restrictions on newspapers gradually, with suggestions of self-restraint already made to editors.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Plan to ease restrictions gradually
About: incident 1968-brazil-institutional-act-five-press-controls
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 240
Publisher: Office of the Historian, United States Department of State
Method: primary document
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1968-12-20

Quotation from the source

Various government sources tell us plan is to ease censorship gradually. Suggestions of self-censorship have already been made.