Brazil's Election Will Not Be Decided by the Lies Spread on the Internet

Marielli brasan was an outspoken critic of police brutality and extra judicial killings. She too had stood up in defence of poor and black communities, for gay rights. The news of her killing tore across brazil. Marches and protests poured into the streets. Rallies filled plazas. Even abroad. Just days after her death, welie started to be accompanied by three body guards and two armored cars. Death threats would also rise against leading feminists and leftists in rio dejanero and elsewhere. Hate crimes and violence rippled across the country. As balshenatarose in the poles,. he campaigned with a barrage of fake news and a social medium machine the likes

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