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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle

Brazil electoral court cracks down on disinformation ahead of Lula-Bolsonaro runoff

Former Brazil's President and current presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Brazil's national electoral authority is announcing moves to crack down harder on online disinformation in a fierce presidential campaign between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) said the measures are intended to curb the "distribution and sharing of knowingly untrue or gravely decontextualized information affecting the electoral process," according to the resolution.

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