ANALYSIS: Debate without winner, but anything can happen until the elections

For a Brazil that needs to find its way to sustainable, more inclusive growth, with urgent improvements in Education, the debate was disappointing.

Did anyone win? Everyone has their own guess, no one knows for sure. But it seems clear that this Sunday's debate, the 16th, was not enough to change the voting intention polls. Which indicates a clear – but not comfortable – leadership by Lula.

We still have almost two weeks of campaigning, another debate, and anything can happen in a country whose ethical and moral limits have been expanded to yet unknown borders.

Elections and fake news: lying strategies and how to combat them

The popularization of digital media and the use of social networks as sources of information in Brazil helped fuel the fake news industry. In election years – and particularly 2022, with fiercer disputes – concerns are growing about the impact that fake news, and the sharing of it, could have on the increasingly digitalized population. So, understand how the false information industry works and learn how to protect yourself from falling into traps.