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Podcast Demagoga
Podcast Demagoga
13.12.2022 07:00

Bolsonaro loses the election. Will there be less misinformation on the internet? #63

During the last years of his presidency, Jair Bolsonaro has been a source of misleading content, including those on the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from Statista says that between January and August this year, Bolsonaro made about 1,430 misleading statements.

He recently lost the election. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to the presidency on January 1st. Does this mean changes for Brazil? Will there be less misinformation in the public space? And how did Bolsonaro's supporters react? What false narratives were the most popular during the campaign, and which ones appeared earlier in the United States?

Our guest was Natália Leal, the chief executive officer at Agência Lupa, the first fact-checking news outlet in Brazil. She is a winner of the Knight International Journalism Award 2021.

Natália Leal – the chief executive officer at Agência Lupa, Brazil's first fact-checking news website. Winner of the Knight International Journalism Award 2021 awarded by the International Center of Journalists. In 2020, she initiated the "Digital Democracy" project to popularize checking information during local government elections.

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Nie mamy takiego typu narracji od wspieraczy Lula, który był głównym... Ale podczas drugiego razu mieliśmy pewien rodzaj ataków od jednego kandydata do innego.

So we have, for example, Bolsonaro said that Lula will increase the taxes in Brazil and some kind of tools that

Więc pewne części kontentu używają tej strategii, aby włączyć kandydata do tego typu systemu politycznego, żeby powiedzieć, że jeśli Lula będzie wybrany, Brazylia zostanie komunistą.

You said that fear of communism is connected to Lula and I can see why.

And Lula and his government, do you think that these people can help you with this information and, for example, to set up some regulations?

I personally don't believe that legislation is a good way to tackle misinformation, but I think we need to discuss the responsibility of digital platform and I think the government of Lula are more open to discuss things like this.