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    Online disinformation is casting a shadow over Brazil’s presidential election. Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s ...

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    Mac Margolis and Robert Muggah
    A municipal health worker and an environmental military police officer carry the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to an Indigenous hut in Manaus, Brazil. - REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

    Pastors in Brazil Telling Amazon Indians Covid Vaccine Will Turn Them into Alligators

    Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered ...

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    Anthony Boadle
    Former Minister of Justice and Public Security and Federal Judge, Sergio Moro taking a selfie during his vote in Municipal Elections 2020 in Curitiba, Brazil, on Sunday 15 November 2020. | Geraldo Bubniak/ZUMA Wire/PA Images

    Digital Misinformation Is Undermining Democracy in Brazil

    Many Brazilians were worried by the torrent of disinformation on social networks during this ...

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    Robert Muggah, Pedro Augusto P. Francisco, Louise Marie Hurel