In fresh days, social media has been circulating a video allegedly presenting protests supporting Brazil's outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro. In the video we see a immense crowd of people with Brazilian flags. This is to show large support for politics. In fact, however, the recording comes from a fewer months ago and presents another events.
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More about our evaluation system:The video with the false description has been presented online for respective days. We can find them in different languages, including Twitter. They made them both available English accounts as well as those held in English. We'll besides find them on Facebook. The movie became peculiarly popular among politicians and sympathizers of the American Republican organization and the far right. Among them were: Jack Soviet, Monica Crowley is Lavern Spicer.
Source: twitter.comWhat's the movie?
Through a reverse search, we were able to identify the same video made available in the first half of September 2022. You can go search Among another things on TikTok, on a channel led by a erstwhile volleyball player, and now Liberal organization politician, Mauricio Souza. In the description we can find information that the recording dates back to September 7, or Brazil's independency Day. This information is in line with the conclusions of the editorial analysis AP News and Reuters About the date of the film.
This means that the broadcast movie has nothing to do with current protests. They exploded after Jair Bolsonaro lost a second circular of elections for the position of president of the national Republic of Brazil. His opponent, Lula da Silva, despite his fresh return to politics managed to win. The difference was minimal and was only 1.8 percent points. Protesters of Bolsonaro supporters consider election results for unbelievable. Their far wing calls armed forces to intervene. The outgoing president, however, avoids public speaking and the military issued a message in which statedthat “the resolution of possible controversy must take place utilizing the instruments of a democratic regulation of law”.
Sam Bolsonaro, following the voice of the Brazilian national ultimate Court, called protesters to halt blocking highways. Contrary to the Twitter narrative, worsening current protests decrease.
What does the Bolsonaro movie gotta do with anything?
However, the fact remains that the crowd in the movie listened to Jair Bolsonaro's speech. It happened. during celebrations of the already mentioned festival of independency in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. The broadcast from this event can be viewed Here., between 2:35.50 and 2:58:30 continued the speeches of politicians, including the outgoing president. The images besides depict the crowd, which is seen on the video.
Summary
Once again, we are dealing with a movie that, after changing the context, is utilized for the current political struggle. Many times in our portal we described cases erstwhile old recordings were presented as current demonstrations and protests to make an impression of them larger than the actual scale. In this case, the video depicts the crowd that gathered during Brazilian independency Day. It was indeed during which Jair Bolsonaro spoke, but the event took place on September 7, 2022. It has nothing to do with the ongoing protests in Brazil, which are linked to the presidential elections.
Sources
AP News: https://apnews.com/article/Brazil-protests-Bolsonaro-983467112108
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-brazil-election/fact-check-video-of-crowds-gathering-in-brasilia-are-not-part-of-an-uprising-idUSL1N32E0PL and https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazilian-authorities-make-headway-cleaning-pro-bolsonaro-blockades-2022-11-02/
OKO.press: https://oko.press/Presidential elections-in-Brazil-lula-win-with-bolsonaro-o-wlos
Buenos Aires Times: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/silent-bolsonaro-leaves-void-in-brazil-presideency.phtml
TRT World: https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-are-brazilians-protesting-en-masse-62636
Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/7/brazils-bolsonaro-leads-massive-independence-day-rally
