This article was first published here in Portuguese by Agência Pública and translated to English by Matty Rose from the Latin America Bureau.

“Robe-wearing bums, get ready,” a Brazilian man warned in a video made on Kwai, a short-form video platform owned by Chinese social media giant Kuaishou. Kwai is one of the top three most popular social media platforms in Brazil, and a top rival to TikTok, owned by Chinese corporate giant ByteDance.

“Not only are we going to invade the Supreme Federal Court, we’re going to hang you upside down,” the man threatened.

During the campaign, Bolsonaro galvanized supporters by taking aim at the integrity of Brazil’s courts, periodically vowing to appoint new judges to the Supreme Court among other threats to the judiciary’s independence. His supporters on social media have been eager to amplify his anti-judiciary narrative.