Mônica Bergamo: Marília Gabriela becomes the target of fake news about the Lula government and says the play is ‘sloppy’

The presenter Marília Gabriela became the target of false news that associates her name with a video in which the Lula government and alleged abuses of the Rouanet Law are made. The piece, which started to be replicated by Bolsonarist profiles on social networks, was actually recorded and published by someone else.

The original video was authored by Regina Velloso, a woman who presents herself as a specialist in people management, and was aired last Friday (20). “The current government got into the Ferrari of destruction. It’s so insanity that, from the first day, I gave up, abandoned any and all news”, says Velloso.

Then, the author goes on to share various false or distorted information involving the use of the Rouanet Law by actress Claudia Raia and the management of the São Francisco river by Lula. She also talks about the existence of a “socialist machine” in the country and questions Northeasterners who voted for the PT, reproducing attacks already made by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to voters in the region.

The original publication has just over a hundred likes on the network where it was made available. The version that started to circulate among Bolsonaristas was replicated dozens of times and bears the inscription “Marília Gabriela and the ungoverned Ferrari”, suggesting that the statements were recorded by the presenter.

“It’s a lie and very poorly done”, says Marília Gabriela to the column, denying the fake news. “It doesn’t even deserve a comment to not propagate this nonsense”, she still says.

Velloso and Gabriela bear no resemblance beyond their hair color and deeper voice.

On the Kwai platform, where the original video with the false information was made available, only the message “we encourage responsible sharing of election-related content” is displayed.

Despite the efforts undertaken by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the 2022 elections were marked by an aggressive game of disinformation and violence on the internet, and the actions proved insufficient, to the point of leading the electoral court to create new rules ten days later. of the second round.

As shown to Sheetdifferent surveys indicated a delay in deleting false publications throughout the campaign and a failure to detect content that, in principle, collides with the platforms’ policies.

On the eve of the first round, a series of audios and texts that associated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with the PCC and the death of Celso Daniel, former mayor of Santo André (SP), circulated again on all platforms. Lula’s coalition filed lawsuits with the TSE at least four times asking for the content to be removed.

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