Fake in the elections: JN is the first victim of lying montages in the 2022 dispute

By Isabella Caminoto / 18/08/2022 / 2 minutes reading

The season of lies has begun in the election campaign. Since Thursday (17), the first deepfake of the 2022 elections has been circulating - on social media. Meanwhile, the environment is forgotten by presidential candidates. O Curto help you not to fall for it!

For those who don't know, the deepfake is a technology that uses artificial intelligence to create fake but realistic videos of people doing things they have never done in real life. The technique allows you to produce video montages with celebrities and politicians, replacing faces and voices in realistic videos.

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Since this Thursday (18), a video montage by the presenter of Jornal Nacional, Renata Vasconcellos, has been circulating on social media, announcing a false poll of voting intentions in which President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) appears first.

The first “deep fake” (or “cheap fake”) of #Elections2022 It's already circulating around. It has Renata's voice editing, manipulated graphics and false electoral research. All in 1 minute. TV Globo aware, and IPEC reporting to the TSE and MPE. There in @UOL. https://t.co/pyT8r7ZCww
— Cristina Tardáguila (@ctardaguila) August 18

The decline began. If you received it on lists or groups, send the vaccine. I'll talk about deep fake later on #Speakerphone

É #FAKE video that shows Bolsonaro leading the Ipec survey released on August 15, 2022 | Fact or fake | The globe https://t.co/WmkYeHND4c
— Vera Magalhães (@veramagalhaes) August 17

Video by: UOL

The video is, in fact, an alteration of the August 15th edition of the Globo news program, where the presenter released data from the latest voting intention survey for the first round of this year's election, carried out by Ipec.

Please be advised to take extra care with the information shared on social media – especially during the election period – don’t forget to always check the source!

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Deepfakes are already circulating in elections: find out what they are and how to identify them (UOL)
How to identify a deepfake? (Power 360)
10 most impressive deepfakes that confused the internet (Canaltech)

Environmental “fake”

And since we are talking about social networks: data shows that environmental issues are rarely mentioned and treated superficially by candidates for the Presidency of the Republic on digital platforms for at least a yearsystem. (((o))echo)

Information from a report by the 2022 Election Observatory – Special Environment, produced by vert.se (social media data analysis company) – demonstrate that the 4 main candidates mentioned issues related to the environment only 35 times on their social media.

The survey, carried out between June 1, 2021 and June 1, 2022, monitored the official accounts of Instagram e Twitter by Jair Bolsonaro (PSL), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), Ciro Gomes (PDT) and Simone Tebet (MDB).

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Isabella Caminoto

Lawyer and master's student in International Law, I have democracy and freedom as undeniable flags. I am passionate about animals and believe that the well-being of our planet should be the daily highlight of our society's agenda.