In these elections, the war waged on the internet won a new weapon: the deepfake. This is a technology that uses socalled artificial intelligence. It allows, among other things, to manipulate the movement of the lips and to transplant a passage of speech from one point to another, for example to completely change the content of a message.
- What is deepfake and how is it used to distort reality?
In the last few weeks, content from National Journal was manipulated in this way and shared extensively on social networks such as WhatsApp to misinform voters. Some of the most shared shows manipulated audio and video to claim that reelection candidate Jair Bolsonaro would come out ahead in IPEC’s voting intent poll, which is false. Research has shown the opposite of manipulated videos.
From August 15th to this Monday (19th), the Ipec and Datafolha surveys will be presented in the JN featured PT candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the one with the highest percentage of voting intentions. In all, Bolsonaro appeared in second place.
When you receive videos claiming to be from the National Journal when Ipec or Datafolha publish election polls, check the page g1 has created especially for you to know if the video is real or if it has been manipulated.
- It’s a #FAKE video showing Bolsonaro at the top of the Ipec poll released on September 12, 2022
The dissemination of these fake videos coincided with public statements by the candidate Bolsonaro, in which he despised the election polls conducted by the institutes Ipec and Datafolha and claimed without any basis in facts that any result of the polls not being his first round win will mean something not it’s correct. will have taken place in the TSE.
Raising suspicion about the electoral justice system is an affront to Brazilian democracy and must be denounced.