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Three months out from the Brazilian presidential election, disinformation about the two main candidates, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is having a major impact. The sheer volume of fabricated news reports, creation of new social media platforms and ever more complex content has made it even more difficult to verify information. The amount of content fact-checked by Agence France-Presse (AFP) increased by more than fourfold between January and last month. Those fabricating news about the election first cut their teeth on a very different subject: the COVID-19 pandemic. “The election content has taken over the space”

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