Gessica Brandino

10/13/2018

During the televised campaign hour this Saturday, the 13^th, Manuela D’Avila, the vice-presidential choice of Fernando Haddad and the Worker’s Party, made an alert concerning the spreading of Fake News on social media networks.

The candidate cited as an example the accusation made by Jair Bolsonaro that the leftists would be making education about homosexuality mandatory in schools. Bolsonaro, a former military captain, made this point during an interview with the National Journal in august.

Haddad’s campaign showed news clippings that made it clear that the textbook that was specifically mentioned by Bolsonaro was never adopted by the Ministry of Education.

Manuela, a deputy from Rio Grande do Sul, has been the victim of fake news herself on the net, as the criticism of her project Compromise shows. It is not true that she said Christianity will go and disappear and there is a fake…