The moderators countered the “deep fake” spread by supporters of the president, which puts him ahead of Lula in research
On Monday evening (Sept.
The news show’s host and editorinchief, Renata Vasconcellos, explained that there was an issue using what is known as “deep fake,” a technique that uses artificial intelligence to manipulate images and create movement and facial expressions.
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Ipec: Lula has 46% of the voting intentions and Bolsonaro 31% in the first ballot. The institute polled 2,512 voters in 158 communities from Friday (9) to Sunday (11). The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points. #JN pic.twitter.com/9KgDD0rO5Q
— Jornal National (@jornalnacional) September 13, 2022
Then the moderator and editorinchief of Jornal Nacional William Bonner said that polls by the institutes Ipec and Datafolha had shown former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) a lead in voting intentions, contradicting the fake video that President Jair Bolsonaro (PL ) leads.
“From August 15 to date, Ipec and Datafolha polls presented here in JN showed PT candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the one with the highest percentage of voting intentions. In all of them, Bolsonaro appeared in 2nd place,” he said.
The fake video began circulating on Bolsonaro supporters’ social networks.
In a critical tone, Bonner noted that the dissemination of the images “coincided with candidate Bolsonaro’s public statements in which he despises the election polls conducted by the Ipec and Datafolha institutes and claims without any factual basis that any result in the polls other than his victory in the 1st round means something wrong will have happened in the TSE. Raising suspicions about the electoral justice system is an affront to Brazilian democracy and must be denounced.”
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The poll released on September 12, 2022 shows that Lula has 46% of intentions, while the current CEO has 31%. The result is considered the greatest advantage of the PT candidate among all recent surveys of large companies.
In a note, Ipec highlighted that the video is false and said it would report the images to the TSE (Supreme Electoral Court) and MPE (Electoral Commission) so the bodies could take the “appropriate action”. Here is the full text (219 KB).
Also according to the aforementioned Ipec poll, the PT candidate would win in a possible second round between Lula and Bolsonaro with 53% versus 36% for the current CEO. In the previous poll, the score for the former president was 52% to 36%.
The poll polled 2,512 voters from September 911. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points with a 95% confidence interval. It is registered with the TSE under number BR01390/2022. It cost R$ 290,332.30 and was paid for by Rede Globo.