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On Monday (06/06), the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) signed an agreement with religious leaders to develop actions that can cooperate with the normality and peaceful character of the October elections. These actions should promote political tolerance, in order to contribute to normality during the campaign and on voting days.
On the same day, TSE members met with Telegram App representatives to discuss actions to fight fake news in this year’s elections. According to the TSE, the president of the court, Luiz Edson Fachin, received from the vice president of Telegram, Ilya Perekopsky, a series of initiatives that the platform is developing to implement in Brazil.
The Fight Against the Fake News
Messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, in addition to several social networks, were widely used during the 2018 presidential elections to spread fake news. Now, authorities are concerned with the repetition of the same tactic. In February of this year, the TSE closed a partnership with several social networks to try to contain the spread of fake news during October elections. Telegram, however, was not part of that agreement, formalizing the partnership with the court only three months later, in May.
