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Jair Bolsonaro resuscitated the military dictatorship’s program to transform the Amazon rain-forest into ranches, strip mines and plantations.
In his analysis, Bruno Malheiro explores what we can expect if his son is elected on October 25th.
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Brazil enters the decisive week of an election that boils down to a choice about the country's path in the coming years. Analysis from @brasil247
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Supporters of presidential candidate Senator Flávio Bolsonaro paraded down Paulista Avenue in São Paulo clutching an inflatable toy missile bearing a call for a nuclear strike on Brazil. @brasil247 panamericandispatch.org/p/nu…
Supporters of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to the streets for a nationwide mobilization in defense of democracy and the president's reelection. @ICLNoticias
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It only gets worse: Meta AI chatbot admits pro Bolsonaro bias and explains why Tech wants the far right to take over Brazil.
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Intercept Brasil reveals the Bolsonaros made a covert deal with US AI company Elytron which included "the creation of fake accounts, the dissemination of disinformation, infiltration to discredit opponents, and 'psychological warfare techniques'.” panamericandispatch.org/p/re…
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According to documents obtained by @TheInterceptBr, the Brazilian cybersecurity firm, Elytron, presented a proposal for a covert political influence operation based on massive data collection & the identification of voter groups. @PAdispatch #Brazil
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Increasing evidence suggests that Big Tech, particularly Meta, is interfering in Brazil's elections as it seeks to sway the vote for far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms.
We don’t know why.
It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH LULA.”
Share it if you can.
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On Mexican TV, assassination target of jailed disinformation merchant Fernando Cerimedo explains how he worked with the Bolsonaros and Meta to reduce Lula’s visibility on its platforms: from @PAdispatch
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Israeli strategist Nevo Cohen has repeatedly said he’s involved in a Brazilian campaign but hasn’t revealed who hired him.
Cohen previously worked for Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s current national security minister and one of the country’s leading far right figures.
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The Brazilian work week will now be 40 hours long and five days a week.
The Brazilian Senate approved the end of the 6-day work week on Wednesday. It had long been a demand of Brazilian labor unions and the Lula administration. @TheRealNews
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AI Video Shows U.S. Role in Brazil's Elections
"Every one of my F-35 jets needs about 400 kilos of rare earths," says an AI-generated Uncle Sam in the video "You have the second largest reserve on the planet, and you're just sitting on it."
An AI video depicting Uncle Sam sums up Washington's priorities for Brazil ahead of the October 25 presidential election runoff, and how U.S. social media platforms are "invading" voter opinion.
It is unclear who created the AI video that is now being shared over social media.
Brazilians in Ireland are preparing to protest outside one of Meta’s key global offices to draw the company’s attention to accusations of algorithmic manipulation during Brazil’s elections.
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
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With Meta exposed for manipulating Brazil’s election, Lula campaign launches portal where users can report digital censorship.
~1/4 of electorate treat Meta’s Instagram/Facebook as PRIMARY info source, whilst Meta’s WhatsApp is most used app in Brazil.
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said technical glitches affected ads and posts from Lula's campaign, but denies favoring Bolsonaro. @revistaforum
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"How do they get involved in elections? By distorting public debate, cognitive fraud, dirty war tactics, buying influencers, & bot farms that organize attacks and manufacture trending topics." Nadia Beller explains how Bolsonaro & Cerimedo worked w/ Meta. panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
"What they did with Meta is straight out of a playbook," says Nadia Beller, the ex-partner of Bolsonaro ally, political strategist Fernando Cerimedo.
Cerimedo was arrested for hiring hitmen to assassinate Beller in September.
Beller is still recovering from the multiple gunshot wounds. She gave an interview this week on the Ventana al Mundo program on Mexico’s public television network, Canal Catorce (Channel 14).
During the interview, she explained how Cerimedo and a member of the Bolsonaro family, who is assumed to be Flavio’s brother Eduardo, met with Meta officials to plot interference in Brazil’s presidential elections.