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  "id": 852,
  "subject_type": "incident",
  "subject_id": 206,
  "field": "effect_on_reporting",
  "value": "Leverage over newspapers through newsprint",
  "statement": "The embassy reported that control over the press would be maintained through the threat of renewed restrictions and economic measures, since most Brazilian newspapers were in debt to the government, which held a monopoly on newsprint.",
  "attribution": null,
  "source_id": 559,
  "evidence_quote": "by threats of renewed censorship and economic measures (most newspapers are in debt to GOB which has newsprint monopoly).",
  "evidence_date": "1968-12-20",
  "method": "primary_document",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
  "confidence": "high",
  "status": "current",
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  "created_at": "2026-09-26T18:04:55Z",
  "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/claims/852",
  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1968-brazil-institutional-act-five-press-controls",
  "source": {
    "id": 559,
    "url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v31/d240",
    "final_url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v31/d240",
    "title": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 240",
    "publisher": "Office of the Historian, United States Department of State",
    "published_on": "1968-12-20",
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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