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Vinicios Betiol stated that platforms like X and Meta manipulated the reach of candidates during the elections in Brazil and argued that the issue should be debated. According to him, left-wing candidates' profiles began receiving between 5% and 10% of their previous reach, while Nikolas Ferreira's profile was boosted. Betiol said that his profile on X used to reach 70 million people per month, but it fell to about 1 million during the election period. He also claimed that Nikolas had a greater reach than major international stars, despite electoral laws prohibiting recommendations to non-followers. Regarding his own campaign, Betiol stated that he encountered people on the streets who followed him, but many did not know he was a candidate because big techs had stopped distributing his posts. He attributed Nikolas's promotion by Meta to the fact that the deputy was the most voted and elected his own bench, whose members he considered mostly unprepared. Betiol accused the TSE of not recognizing the seriousness of the problem and said that democracy was at risk. He also claimed that his reach was starting to recover, that he had already filed a lawsuit with the Electoral Court, and that he intended to continue the dispute after the elections. According to him, he would continue addressing the issue even without receiving sufficient attention from a large part of the left. #Eleições2023 #Democracia #RedesSociais (translated)

Arthur Machado stated that the banks hired the media to manipulate information and said that the liberals acted in the same way. He cited the Vorcaro case as one that came to light, but also mentioned BTG and XP, in addition to a wave of defense for the CVM. Machado added that Constantino and his group acted similarly. #bancos #manipulação #informação (translated)

Intercept Brasil reported that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a candidate for the presidency from PL, paid R$ 600 thousand to the cybersecurity company Elytron, and that the party declared it had paid another R$ 131.9 thousand to the company. According to documents obtained by the outlet, Elytron attempted to sell an artificial intelligence system in the United States to manipulate elections clandestinely. The proposal, according to Intercept Brasil, included collecting large volumes of data, identifying groups of voters, and directing actions such as spreading rumors and misinformation, creating fake accounts, and using infiltration methods to discredit opponents. https://t.co/nGDsiAuUmT #Cibersegurança #Eleições2024 #Desinformação (translated)

POPTime stated, based on information from The Intercept, that Flávio Bolsonaro paid over R$ 600,000 for an electoral manipulation service offered in the United States, aimed at creating fake accounts, spreading misinformation, and discrediting opponents. https://t.co/GJiovMUJ8R #Desinformação #Eleições #Política (translated)

Truecaller questioned whether Brazilians would allow Donald Trump to influence the country's electoral system in defense of U.S. interests. It predicted that Trump would lose control of the House and Senate in November, would be unable to govern, and would leave office in two years. The author stated that China was economically more important to Brazil than the United States because it buys Brazilian products and can help during crises. He also mentioned that the United States had a trade surplus with Brazil and was a direct competitor to agribusiness and Embraer. Truecaller also said that Brazilians were being influenced by a nonsensical narrative and cited controversies involving the PL and the Bolsonaro family. It claimed that the president of the PL had been arrested in the mensalão scandal, that Flávio Bolsonaro campaigned for Eduardo Cunha, who was imprisoned in the Lava Jato operation, and that the scandals involving INSS and Banco Master had arisen and grown during the Bolsonaro administration. It also criticized Jair Bolsonaro for, according to it, catering to the Centrão by releasing funds from the rapporteur and the secret budget. Regarding Flávio Bolsonaro, Truecaller stated that he did not have a government plan, had changed his position on the 6x1 work schedule, and had promised to cut R$ 200 billion in basic services to solve the fiscal problem, although he only explained R$ 70 billion, an amount the author considered inflated. It added that Flávio had not explained his pricing policy for Petrobras. Finally, Truecaller argued that spending cuts would reduce consumption and GDP and worsen the primary deficit by decreasing revenue. It cited Greece, Argentina, Chile, and Peru as examples where, according to it, austerity policies had failed. #PolíticaBrasil #Eleições2022 #Manipulação (translated)

Cafecomferri stated that a survey from Quaest released the day before indicated, in his assessment, an attempt by the left to create the narrative that the PT was reacting, but he said that this was not true. He claimed that the survey included blank votes, null votes, and abstentions, classified this as electoral manipulation, and advocated for punishment. He also asked where Nikolas Ferreira was. #Eleições2024 #ManipulaçãoEleitoral #PT (translated)

Jones Manoel stated that reports circulating indicated that WhatsApp's Meta AI was creating campaign images for Flávio Bolsonaro but refused identical requests related to Lula. He classified the episode as manipulation by Meta and said that the case reinforced the need for digital and data sovereignty. He also stated that the actions of large technology companies represented foreign intervention in the country, with the complicity of the Judiciary. Manoel said that, despite what he called an attack, his group would win the second-round election on the 25th. He asked for votes for number 13 and stated that this would ensure better conditions for the struggle starting in 2027. #SoberaniaDigital #FlávioBolsonaro #BigTechs (translated)

The author stated that she deliberately used the expression "manipulation of politics" when questioning how a Supreme Federal Court minister involved in a scandal would have gathered the leaders of the legislative houses to form an electoral coalition and keep a president in power. She said that the result of the first round was a clear response to members of the STF and claimed that dissatisfaction with figures of power was not limited to Bolsonaro's supporters. According to her, these people expected Flávio and the elected Congress to remove judicial representatives from public life. #Política #STF #Eleições (translated)

Nuno Gouveia, a specialist in American politics, warns that the strange relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin highlights the manipulation of the White House by the Russian leader, especially amid recent controversies regarding the agreement to release Russian oil and ceasefire negotiations in the war in Ukraine. #GuerraNaUcrânia #Trump #RelaçõesInternacionais (translated)

Victor Garcia wrote that the TSE had ordered Flávio Bolsonaro to delete a misleading video about a pro-Lula event on Avenida Paulista. According to the author, the video showed a woman with a supposed illegal substance and was circulating on social media before the protest in São Paulo. Garcia added that a minister of the electoral court classified the content as "serious manipulation" and that the images were, in fact, from a protest abroad. #FlávioBolsonaro #TSE #Manipulação (translated)

"Go faint" said to have been shocked by a video in which, according to the report, a pastor was guiding the faithful to repeat that a brother should vote for another. He claimed that the pastor was not asking for votes, but that if he could, he would ask for support for Flavio. The author classified the speech as explicit manipulation and indoctrination, compared it to a sketch from Porta dos Fundos and used an offensive expression to suggest that people were incapable of thinking. #Manipulação #Doutrinação #Política (translated)

The former chief prosecutor of the courts of Leiria and Coimbra was sentenced to one year in prison, with the sentence suspended for two years, for misconduct and the withholding of documents, amid accusations of manipulation and delays in eight cases in the Leiria district. #Justiça #Prevaricação #Coimbra (translated)

ph stated that the big technology companies, especially Meta, would be trying to separate and isolate the left bubble. According to him, these companies would strategically analyze the profiles of more impressionable and susceptible individuals to manipulation in order to recommend right-wing content to them, keeping them in that bubble. ph described the situation as bizarre. #Tecnologia #RedesSociais #Manipulação (translated)

The article by Jaime Nogueira Pinto questions what lies behind the recent choice of the Brazilian people, suggesting that manipulation through misinformation and support for the far-right were fundamental factors in the election results. #Brasil #Desinformação #Polarização (translated)

The Central Right stated that confidence in victory should be unshakable and claimed that lies, false attacks, manipulation, and public money allocated to influencers would be used. It also called for resilience and mobilization, summarizing the message with the expression "us for us." https://t.co/ZxhM0dWuhU #Fé #Resiliência #Mobilização (translated)

"This manipulation is unacceptable. Those who create this type of content, as well as those who disseminate it, will be held responsible." Also this Wednesday, the head of the Paris police, Patrice Faure, denied having made controversial comments about the repression of the student movement that spread on TikTok attributed to Faure. #França #ProtestosEstudantis #Educação (translated)