U.S. election deniers who spread the falsehood that the 2020 presidential election was stolen are now making similarly baseless claims about the Oct. 30 presidential election in Brazil.
An Instagram post shared a Nov. 1 headline that said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro would hold a press conference to "announce a military audit of Brazil’s controversial election" and "may arrest criminal judges." The headline was from The Gateway Pundit, a conservative website that has spread U.S. election misinformation.
The Instagram post’s caption said, "We watched a successful coup unfold from 2016 - 2020 with no consequences. We did not invoke the Insurrection Act but it appears that Brazil may invoke their version of it."
Another Instagram post shared the same headline from The Gateway Pundit with a caption that said, "Brazil is doing what we should have done in 2020."
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The Gateway Pundit headline and accompanying story claimed to know that Bolsonaro would challenge the election results during a Nov. 1 press conference, but none of its claims came to fruition.
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