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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Facebook censors Trump of Brazil - Jair Bolsonaro



Obey Your Internet Overlords


Jair Bolsonaro, conservative candidate in Brazil’s presidential race, is likely to achieve a historic victory Sunday despite an assassination attempt limiting his campaign schedule and reports of censorship on Facebook.

According to polling data released this week, Bolsonaro retains a 17-point lead over socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad, a strong indication that he is on course to be elected president, much to the shock and dismay of the country’s socialist political establishment.

Forced to limit his campaign schedule, Bolsonaro relied heavily on social media in the past two months to spread his message. This week, it also emerged that Facebook had censored dozens of accounts and pages from the candidate’s “main network of support,” supposedly for violating the network’s rules on spam and “fake news.” 

His opponents have also complained that Bolsonaro supporters are using Facebook’s messaging app WhatsApp to spread misinformation, although they did not present concrete evidence for such claims.

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