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The fake news that associated the image used by the newspaper to the Carnaval. Screenshot.
One of the most discussed topics of 2018 Brazilian elections has been the production and massive dissemination of fake news. This is the Brazilian contribution to the international phenomenon of manipulating information and targeting niche audiences identified with certain preferences, like what we saw in the scandal of Cambridge Analytica, in the context of the US elections and the “Leave campaign” in the United Kingdom.
