U.S. election deniers are now making baseless claims about Brazil’s presidential election, which Jair Bolsonaro recently lost. The country’s election was free and fair, according to independent electoral observers.
The Instagram post’s caption said,"We watched a successful coup unfold from 2016 - 2020 with no consequences. We did not invoke the Insurrection Act but it appears that Brazil may invoke their version of it."shared the same headline from The Gateway Pundit with a caption that said,"Brazil is doing what we should have done in 2020."
The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. claimed to know that Bolsonaro would challenge the election results during a Nov. 1 press conference, but none of its claims came to fruition. Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court, which runs the nation’s elections, announced the voting results Oct. 30 and declared former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner.After the vote, the head of the court, Alexandre de Moraes, called Lula and Bolsonaro to inform them of the result, according to an Oct. 31published by the court.
But The Gateway Pundit article said Bolsonaro"may invoke the Constitution to demand the military hold an audit of the impossible results" and"may also jail the radical leftist court justices who made it a crime for populist party to campaign effectively."Facebook posts
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