Phrases out of context
Video editing distorts facts. In one of them that went viral among supporters of the president on Wednesday (19), such as the evangelical pastor Silas Malafaia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) states: “You have to lie. The politician has to lie.” In fact, in an interview with the Flow podcast, Lula was talking about Bolsonaro, whom he calls a “compulsive liar” a few seconds later.
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Yes, Bolsonaro appears saying that, if elected, he will appoint former president Fernando Collor (PTB) as minister and that, together, they will “confiscate his retirement”. The edit omitted the part where he explained that he was talking about “rumors” spread by his opponents.
left-wing governments
With left-wing governments taking power in several Latin American countries, several contents try to relate episodes that did not even happen to a future government Squid.
This was the case of the alleged “authorization of pedophilia” linked to the government of Gustavo Petro, in Colombia. The publications are based on a measure that made it legal for people over the age of 14 to marry without their guardians' permission, on August 18, 2021, when the president was Iván Duque.
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Video of a looting against poultry and pig farmers that would have been recorded during the government of Alberto Fernández in Argentina, was actually recorded in the Colombian municipality of Puerto Tejada, during the wave of protests that began in April 2021 against Duque's administration.
Videos recorded during the 2019 protest movement in Chile also went viral on social media as if showing demonstrations in 2022, during the government of Gabriel Boric.
Fake surveys
There are cases of completely invented surveys and montages of supposed television reports that indicate an advantage for one candidate or another.
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Hence the importance of registering research with the Electoral Court, which began to require entities and companies that carry out surveys to register with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) system. There you can check whether a withdrawal exists or not.
Evidence of fraud?
Shortly after the first round, several contents that tried to prove the existence of electoral fraud went viral on the networks. One of the most circulated theses was that the totalization of votes followed an algorithm in which for every 12% of the ballots counted, Lula gained 1% of the valid votes and Bolsonaro lost 0,5%. But the numbers listed in the message did not coincide with the percentages achieved by the candidates.
A list of cities was also circulated where, supposedly, more votes for Lula were recorded than the number of inhabitants. But the data cited in the text is incorrect and some of the cities mentioned do not even exist.
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The data that showed a greater number of votes for president than voters in a section of Minas Gerais were related to voting in transit. With this modality, voters can vote in a state other than their electoral domicile, but only for president.
Montages based on news websites
Many images were obtained through montages, where text was added on a real background, or the website's HTML code was changed and then a screenshot was taken.
A screenshot from the G1 news website, for example, falsely indicated that Lula had said that, if elected, he would give the population a deadline to hand over their weapons. Another, also created, attributed to the candidate the declaration that “not even God can take this election away” from him.
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In the first round, a screenshot of the Jovem Pan website was also circulated with the supposed news that Bolsonaro had been re-elected in New Zealand.
(With AFP)
