Taisa Sganzerla
Brazil Editor
Global Voices OnlineFreelance Brazilian journalist, video editor and translator based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Freelance Brazilian journalist, video editor and translator based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Will fake news carry Brazil’s favored far-right candidate to victory?
Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign has spread deceitful and misleading news debunked by fact-checkers. Brazil’s electoral courts planned to take measures to curb the spread of fake news, but they underestimated its impact, and the measures hardly came to fruition.
