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Misinformation Is Threatening Brazil’s Elections, Too

By Robert Muggah, Louise Marie Hurel, Pedro Augusto Francisco

Municipal campaigns are awash with misleading propaganda, in a warning sign for the rest of the region.

After witnessing the deluge of disinformation during the bitterly contested US presidential election, Brazilians are preparing nervously for their own municipal elections on November 15, with runoffs roughly two weeks later These elections are consequential: There are 5,570 municipalities in Brazil, and what happens this month could shape the political landscape for the presidential contest in 2022 Like the United States, Brazilians are voting amid a brutal pandemic, a deepening economic crisis – and a tidal wave of misleading and deceptive digital propaganda Since the controversial...

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