Fake news on WhatsApp debunked ahead of Brazil vote


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“We think that reducing virality of forwarded content can help users by keeping WhatsApp the way it was designed to be, a private messaging app,” Carl Woog, a company spokesman, said in an interview.


As in the US and elsewhere, fact-checkers are facing an unusually polarised, distrustful electorate. Many of the comments on Comprova’s Facebook page are full of vitriol, accusing the project of one bias or another.


National Social Liberal Party presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro greets people in Rio de Janeiro.

National Social Liberal Party presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro greets people in Rio de Janeiro.


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Many of its checks focus on claims about two of the most polarising figures in Brazilian politics: Lula, who is serving a sentence for a corruption and money laundering conviction and is likely to be barred from running, and Jair Bolsonario, a far-right congressman noted for insulting women, gays and blacks. They are running first and second in polls, respectively.


Matheus Salustiano, a university student, said many people are so entrenched in their views that they resent fact-checkers. The 20-year-old has asked Comprova to check some material he received from the WhatsApp groups he belongs to. But he has stopped short of sharing debunked results with these groups.


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