Brasil Paralelo

LHT HIGGS Produções Audiovisuais LTDA, better known by its trade name Brasil Paralelo, is a Brazilian company founded in 2016, in Porto Alegre, that produces historically revisionist and conservative documentaries about politics, history and current events. The videos are published on YouTube and have been shown since December 9, 2019 on TV Escola, a state television channel linked to the Ministry of Education and, since April 6, 2021, on the Panflix platform of the Jovem Pan group. It emerged in the context of the conservative wave in Brazil in the 2010s. The producer places itself as a "connection to a parallel reality" and proposes to produce content that is inconsistent to the perspectives of the mainstream world of Brazilian intellectuals and journalists, which it considers dominated by the left. Its productions include content that defend and promote the values of the political right and Christianity. The company has been defined as close to the Bolsonaro government and its productions have been identified as aligned with the ideas of personalities of the Brazilian far-right such as Olavo de Carvalho, Jair Bolsonaro and Ernesto Araújo and have been criticized for distorting the history of Brazil and Portugal. The screening on TV Escola was repudiated by the São Paulo regional association of the National History Association, which classified the material as "ideological propaganda by an extremist group", containing "lying and denialist versions of history". The producer claims that its contents are devoid of any political ideology and rejects the criticisms of academics and journalists and those contained in the entry on Wikipedia about the company. In April 2021, the YouTube channel listed 421 videos, had 1.71 million subscribers and over 100 million views. According to a survey by the Aos Fatos agency, Brasil Paralelo is also the second largest Telegram channel in the world, with 80 thousand subscribers, losing to the profile of Allan dos Santos, from Terça Livre.