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Barack Obama, former president of the USA, criticized authoritarianism and political polarization in a lecture in Lisbon, while Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine would need a new president to facilitate the resolution of the conflict with Russia. #BarackObama #Autoritarismo #GameChangersForum (translated)

The water crisis in Almada, which left taps dry in July, was seen as a window of opportunity by the president of SMAS to reinforce resilience and solve long-standing disputes with Seixal, with the resolution of the CBR2 well problem expected soon. #Água #Almada #Seixal (translated)

The author stated that he would report a professional to the Regional Council of Dentistry of Amazonas (CRO-AM), claiming that he had tried to convert poor patients into votes. He said that the conduct would violate Article 11, item II, of CFO Resolution No. 118/2012. He also criticized the professional for not deleting a post after receiving this advice from a colleague and included the identification "CRO AM 8517." https://t.co/Z4JHSS6nBc #ÉticaProfissional #Odontologia #Denúncia (translated)

RM BRASIL stated that a delivery person from Jadlog threw a package at their house without calling or knocking, even though the box was marked as fragile. According to the report, the package contained a painting by an artist from the exhibition, and the organization requested a solution for the case. https://t.co/wDcx5PH63a #Jadlog #Entrega #Fragil (translated)

We are ready to do everything in our power to contribute to the resolution of this situation. Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Thursday with his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, before a regional summit in Turkmenistan, and reaffirmed Moscow's support for ending the war in the Middle East, Russian news agencies reported. "We are ready to do everything in our power to contribute to the resolution of this situation," Putin said, adding that Iran is making "genuine efforts to end the conflict," which began on February 28 with an Israeli-American offensive against the Islamic Republic. #MédioOriente #Rússia #Irão (translated)

Guilherme Cortez stated that Lula's posts on social media remained subject to the resolution of the TSE which, according to him, limited the algorithmic distribution of candidates' content. He asked people to share the posts, send the content to groups, and download the videos to reach audiences outside their "bubble." #Lula #Eleições2024 #Democracia (translated)

Brazil’s synthetic voters – when AI manufactures public opinion They look like ordinary street interviews. A reporter approaches a passer-by in a Brazilian square and asks a simple question: who will you vote for? A young voter explains why Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva deserves another term. An elderly woman says Brazil needs Flávio Bolsonaro because he represents political renewal and greater security. The locations look plausible, the microphones are visible and the answers sound much like the brief political opinions heard in television vox pops around the world. None of the people are real. Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on 4 October, fact-checking organisation Aos Fatos identified at least 50 TikTok videos in which artificial intelligence was used to manufacture voters, reporters and apparently spontaneous political interviews. Together, the videos had accumulated around 7.4 million views by mid-August. Some promoted Lula, others Flávio Bolsonaro, while another group used synthetic characters to ridicule or stereotype supporters of one side. Aos Fatos found no apparent evidence linking the accounts producing the videos to either presidential campaign. The opinion poll that never took place The format is important. These were not conventional deepfakes in which a recognisable politician is made to say something he never said. Instead, the creators reproduced the visual language of the vox pop – the short street interview used by broadcasters and social-media creators to illustrate what ordinary people supposedly think. In pro-Lula videos, synthetic voters described themselves as beneficiaries of social programmes or credited the president with improving their lives. In videos supporting Flávio Bolsonaro, artificial interviewees associated him with political renewal, public security and fighting corruption. Other clips were openly hostile: AI-generated characters presented as poor or living in parts of Brazil’s north-east were shown in dirty clothes or run-down surroundings, declaring support for Lula because they supposedly preferred welfare payments to work. The deception is therefore subtler than fabricating a candidate’s statement. It manufactures something that political communication normally treats as evidence of public sentiment. A real vox pop may be unscientific, but the people interviewed at least exist. These videos created the appearance that identifiable social groups – young people, pensioners, welfare recipients or residents of particular regions – were spontaneously expressing political preferences when no such encounters had taken place. An electoral-law specialist interviewed by Aos Fatos described the technique as the fabrication of a “social fact that never occurred”. That captures the central innovation: AI is being used not merely to falsify political speech, but to manufacture the impression of grassroots opinion. Fifty videos, but not one proven network The available evidence does not support describing the 50 posts as a centrally controlled influence operation. Aos Fatos located them through TikTok searches and recommendations produced by the platform itself, then examined the accounts responsible for publication. Most had relatively small individual audiences, although their combined reach was substantial. The first examples identified by the investigation appeared as early as March 2026. Activity increased in June and was concentrated particularly in July and the first half of August as Brazil’s election calendar intensified. Some accounts specialised in AI-generated videos generally, including fabricated podcast-style material. Others were explicitly political or supportive of a candidate, but Aos Fatos found no apparent links between those profiles and the official Lula or Bolsonaro campaigns. That distinction is essential. The evidence demonstrates a common technique and a shared political environment, not a single command structure. Some creators may have been motivated by ideology, others by engagement or monetisation. Publicly available evidence does not establish who commissioned the individual videos or whether any coordination existed between the accounts. This decentralised model also creates a different enforcement problem from a traditional bot network. There may be no headquarters to expose and no infrastructure whose removal disables the entire operation. The format itself can be copied by anyone with access to inexpensive generative-video tools. When the algorithm mixes real and synthetic citizens Aos Fatos documented another important feature of the phenomenon: TikTok’s recommendation system placed AI-generated interviews alongside genuine street interviews. For a user scrolling quickly through the platform, the transition between an authentic citizen and an entirely fabricated one could therefore be almost invisible. In 18 per cent of the 50 videos analysed, there was no indication that the people shown had been generated using AI. After Aos Fatos provided TikTok with the videos, the company said it had removed all of them for violating its rules on edited and AI-generated media. TikTok said its policies require creators to identify synthetic content and prohibit manipulated media capable of misleading users about matters of public importance or impersonating genuine journalistic material. The issue extends beyond one platform. Factchequeado’s review of Brazil’s 2026 election campaign found that synthetic endorsements and other deepfakes had become one of the most visible forms of AI-assisted electoral misinformation, alongside fabricated candidate statements and invented scenes. Brazil already had rules for synthetic politics Brazil entered the campaign with unusually detailed electoral rules governing artificial intelligence. The Superior Electoral Court, the TSE, requires electoral propaganda using synthetic multimedia to disclose clearly that AI was used. More importantly for the fake-voter videos, its rules prohibit synthetic audio or video used to favour or harm a candidacy when it creates or alters the image or voice of a living, deceased or fictitious person. The difficulty is attribution and enforcement. When a synthetic video is published by an official campaign, responsibility can be relatively straightforward to investigate. When it comes from an apparently independent account with no demonstrated relationship to a candidate, lawyers interviewed by Aos Fatos said responsibility is more likely to fall on the individual creator, while imposing electoral sanctions on a campaign would require evidence of a connection. For the final 72 hours before the election and the 24 hours following it, the TSE has imposed additional restrictions on newly published or republished synthetic material involving candidates or public figures, reflecting the particular difficulty of correcting fabricated content immediately before voting. From deepfake politicians to synthetic electorates The Brazilian case illustrates a broader change in political manipulation. The first generation of electoral deepfakes concentrated on famous people: make a politician appear to say something damaging, or fabricate an endorsement from a celebrity. Synthetic vox pops reverse the perspective. The politician can remain completely authentic; it is the electorate around the politician that is fabricated. That changes the psychological proposition of the message. Instead of saying the candidate believes this, the video suggests people like you believe this. Age, clothing, accent, neighbourhood and social class can all be generated to construct an artificial constituency around almost any political claim. There is no evidence that the 50 Brazilian videos identified by Aos Fatos constitute a single centrally directed campaign, nor evidence that they changed voting intentions. What they demonstrate is a technique whose barrier to entry has become extremely low. AI no longer needs to forge the politician. #DISINFORMED #Episode14 #Brazil #BrazilElection2026 #Elections #ElectionDisinformation #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SyntheticVoters #SyntheticMedia #AIAvatars #AIGeneratedVideo #VoxPop #FakeInterviews #Astroturfing #AIPropaganda #PoliticalDisinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #SocialMediaManipulation #TikTok #PublicOpinion #ManufacturedConsent #SyntheticPublicOpinion #DigitalInfluence #Deepfakes #ElectionIntegrity #TSE #AosFatos #FactChecking #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD (translated)

The President appeals for understandings that ensure governmental stability and the resolution of urgent problems in Housing and Health, but the continuation of political disputes between PS and PSD impedes the implementation of effective solutions. #Política #Habitação #Saúde (translated)

Ludmila Lins Grilo stated that on election day, candidates and voters could not ask for votes on social networks or in other places, but they could individually express their preference without soliciting votes. According to her, asking for votes constituted an electoral crime, subject to detention from six months to one year — substitutable by community service for the same period — and a fine ranging from R$ 5,320.50 to R$ 15,961.50, in accordance with article 39, paragraph 5, item II, of the Election Law and article 87, item II, of TSE Resolution No. 23,610/2019. Grilo added that previous publications did not need to be deleted and that paid boosting was not permitted. #Eleições2023 #VotoConsciente #CrimeEleitoral (translated)

Claudio Dantas stated that Fachin's resolution to prevent Gilmar and Dino from circumventing the random assignment of cases in the STF had no effect. He compared the result to that of Fachin's Code of Ethics and the announcement of the end of the Fake News investigation, and he referred to the president as "decorative." #STF #Política #Justiça (translated)

"We have been drafting the rules of the 'pre-war' law for several weeks. The law concerns the situation here and now, addressing the Gordian knots that hang in the air. The rules will cover, among other aspects, the purchase of weapons." Although there is no scheduled date for the presentation of the law, due to the "complex legislative process," Cezary Tomczyk, the country's Deputy Minister of Defense, states that this is the "moment" to discuss the matter. #GuerraNaUcrânia #Polônia #DefesaNacional (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that if a resolution from Edson Fachin had been in effect the day before, Gilmar Mendes' intervention in the debate would not have occurred. According to Ruschel, the rule provided that requests made by individuals who were not parties to a case would go through the validation of the presidency of the STF before being forwarded to a rapporteur. If deemed unrelated to the original action, they would be distributed by lottery; if related to a similar case already underway in a minister's office, they would be sent to that judge by prevention. #STF #direito #justiça (translated)

The Attorney General's Office stated that António Costa cannot access the case of the Influencer Operation, as he is not formally a party to it, and the Minister of Justice emphasized the importance of a swift resolution for the case. #OperaçãoInfluencer #Corrupção #Justiça (translated)

Pri questioned whether the so-called "caretaker fishing" had come to an end and wrote that Edson Fachin issued a resolution to strengthen the rules against the indirect selection of ministers. According to Pri, before an action is forwarded to a chamber for alleged connection, it would undergo technical analysis and approval from the Presidency of the STF. https://t.co/4sguRW5ssU #STF #Justiça #Política (translated)

Dr. Paulo Faria stated that Edson Fachin signed a resolution that, according to him, ended the excessive use of incidental petitions by people who took advantage of this resource. He considered the measure late but relevant, and said that the damages had already been caused. https://t.co/vKaeiaKqRT #Justiça #Direito #Política (translated)

“os faria explodir”Na quarta-feira, na Casa Branca, o Presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ao ser questionado sobre a evolução da guerra no Médio Oriente, afirmou que “os faria explodir” ou que “chegaria a um acordo”, mas que o tempo para uma resolução está a esgotar-se. #Conflitos #MédioOriente #Irão

“As nossas quatro propostas de resolução foram integralmente acolhidas”Em declarações à Lusa, o dirigente da Dar Voz ao Silêncio Manuel Fernandes explicou que o objetivo do encontro, o primeiro do género da associação criada há poucos meses depois de uma divisão da associação congénere, Coração Silenciado, é assegurar “abertura da Igreja para dar seguimento às reivindicações das vítimas”, que incluem uma auditoria independente. #AbusosNaIgreja #DarVozAoSilêncio #JustiçaParaVítimas

🚨Yuri22 e Dona resolveram a treta entre eles após a ajuda de MC Lele JP e MC Ryan SP para colocar um ponto final na história! • Após conversarem sobre o fim da amizade, Yuri voltou a seguir o Dona e foram para o Bololô Restaurante jantar. https://t.co/1x0AjbPZM0 #amizade #conflito #resolução

Vou usar a mensagem do mano "Todo dia o Vitor Hugo feliz contra o flamengo" pra deixar claro algumas coisas: 1. Eu gosto de apostar e ganhar um dinheiro, mas eu não mamo rola de dono de casa de aposta, no fundo mesmo quero que todas elas se fodam. O que a gente ganha é uma migalha perto do mal que elas causam. Se elas desaparecessem do mapa, a minha vida não mudaria. 2. Eu me solidarizo com você que aprendeu a apostar e perdeu talvez sua única fonte de renda. Eu torço para que a sua situação se resolva de forma satisfatória e você fique bem. Mas lembre-se você foi o responsável por ter dado all in numa coisa que poderia acabar com uma canetada. Espero que essa lição lhe traga aprendizado. 3. Eu não tenho pena de quem recebe dinheiro de casa de aposta via patrocínio. Espero que esse tipo de relação comercial seja extinta. 4. Do brasileiro comum que se endividou apostando eu quero que ele seja melhor protegido pela regulação e pela lei. O cérebro (em algumas pessoas) age de forma diferente com o estímulo ao jogo. Não é todo mundo, você pode não sofrer desse problema. Eu não tenho isso, mas conheço muita gente que tem e conheço muita gente que fodeu com a própria vida por causa desse problema. 5. Considero a maior vitória desse perfil ver que a minha posição diverge daqueles que fazem mal à sociedade ou que pensam apenas no próprio umbigo. Opinião de quem recebe dinheiro de casa de aposta e bosta de cachorro tem o mesmo valor. Você pode não concordar, mas foda-se, eu não tenho rabo preso como você. 6. Minha posição sobre o tema: defendo a total proibição de propaganda e patrocinios das apostas, rediscussão sobre a limitação de apostadores que ganham dinheiro e criminalização daqueles que impulsionam marketing pago com promessa de lucro em cassino. 7. Torço para que esse grande reset nas apostas seja benéfico tanto para quem é vulnerável quanto para quem gosta de apostar. 8. Este perfil continuará zombando da situação até a sua resolução (assim como fazemos com qualquer situação). Se você sente a zoação, melhor parar de seguir ou bloquear porque vai ficar cada vez pior pra você. E pau no cu das casas de apostas. #Apostas #JogosDeAzar #Regulação