“Mr. Bolsonaro had 46% of the vote ... he remains an extremely divisive figure who alienated large segments of Brazil’s highly diverse population ... Fernando Haddad, the leftist Workers’ Party candidate ... faces a daunting task in the second round”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-election.html …
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Brazil's far-right candidate "Bolsonaro has been getting an illegal helping hand from a group of Brazilian entrepreneurs who are bankrolling a campaign to bombard
@WhatsApp users with fake news about" his rival Fernando Haddad#Caixa2doBolsonarohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-whatsapp-fake-news-campaign …Show this thread -
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@agencialupa's Cristina Tardáguila,@pablo_ortellado &@fbenevenuto on how@WhatsApp has been used to spread lies for far-right presidential candidate; and why the company should take measures to rein in the deleterious spread of misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/opinion/brazil-election-fake-news-whatsapp.html …pic.twitter.com/bODybzpDIe
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“WhatsApp banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in Brazil as the Facebook Inc. messaging service struggles to contain spam, misinformation and other political shenanigans ahead of a runoff election in Latin America’s largest country”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/whatsapp-bans-more-than-100-000-accounts-in-brazil-election …
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@nytimes editorial: “The choice is for Brazilians to make. But it is a sad day for democracy when disarray and disappointment drive voters to distraction and open the door to offensive, crude and thuggish populists.”#EleNão#eleiçōes2018https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/opinion/brazil-election-jair-bolsonaro.html …Show this thread -
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@TheEconomist: "Compared with Mr Bolsonaro, who insults minority groups and likes dictators as long as they are right-wing, Mr Haddad is a reassuring figure....Brazil is poised to elect a president who poses a real threat to the country’s young democracy"https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/20/the-only-man-who-can-stop-jair-bolsonaro-from-becoming-brazils-president …Show this thread -
“The far-right favourite to become Brazil’s next president has vowed to spearhead a historic purge of his leftwing political foes in a menacing address that delighted supporters and left opponents outraged and unnerved.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/22/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-says-he-would-put-army-on-streets-to-fight …pic.twitter.com/JceWolu5CM
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@caetanoveloso: “I was forced into exile once. It won’t happen again. I want my music, my presence, to be a permanent resistance to whatever anti-democratic feature may come out of a probable Bolsonaro government”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/caetano-veloso-brazil-bolsonaro.html …Show this thread -
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@jonathanwatts: “Bolsonaro is not unique: around the world, diminishing resources are fuelling a global rise of authoritarian leaders dedicated to doing the bidding of some of the world’s most environmentally damaging interests” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/planet-populists-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-environment …pic.twitter.com/2ubE8fK8Xs
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Excellent, informative thread on what the Duterte comparison tells us about Bolsonarohttps://twitter.com/vinncent/status/1055929727213559808?s=21 …
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