Meta has its thumb on the scale in Brazil’s presidential runoff, says Brazilian lawyer Ana Júlia Guedes, and it’s tipping it right toward Flávio Bolsonaro. She tells Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek how fake news posts telling Brazilians they can’t vote Sunday, and Google’s AI search going quiet on Bolsonaro, are shaping a race now locked in a dead heat, and how Lula’s campaign is fighting a resurgent far right in Latin America’s largest economy with the biggest street mobilizations in decades. Guedes, an organizer with Movimento Brasil Popular, explains why she calls the Banco Master scandal the biggest in Brazil’s history, explaining its alleged ties to the Bolsonaros and to banker Daniel Vorcaro, who reportedly organized parties for the Bolsonaro-appointed Supreme Court justice now presiding over Brazil’s elections. Guedes unpacks how the alleged siphoning of public retirement funds bankrolled penthouse orgies and sex trafficking, and why the same justice tried to shut down Lula’s WhatsApp channels days before the vote. And she explains what a second Bolsonaro presidency would mean for workers’ rights, state-owned industries, and Brazil’s vast rare earth reserves. “What’s at stake is everything we are. He’s promising to do to Brazil what was done to Argentina: end our sovereignty.” Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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