Brazil: Newspaper attacked after reporting illegal funding that benefited presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro
(WorldNews France)

The 18 October article in the Folha de São Paulo claimed that businessmen have been illegally funding a WhatsApp disinformation campaign designed to get Brazilians to vote for Bolsonaro in the presidential election, the second round of which is to be held on 28 October. According to the report, WhatsApp has been used to bombard voters with millions of automated messages, most of them smearing the Workers` Party and its candidate, Fernando Haddad. Such private sector funding of an election campaign is illegal in Brazil and the country`s electoral...