Brazil’s conservative establishment claimed election fraud immediately after losing

Evidence

Far more shocking was the response of Aécio Neves to his election defeat. He gave credence to suspicions bubbling around on right-wing corners of the internet that the election had been stolen. His formerly boring, respectable party called for an official investigation into the results. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 549

Categorization

• XREF: Prefigures Trump’s 2020 stolen-election claims; notable that Brazil mainstreamed this in 2014. — connects to: Social media microtargeting drove Brazil’s 2018 far-right electoral outcome — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1336

Broader Connections

• Social media microtargeting drove Brazil’s 2018 far-right electoral outcome #complicates (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1336