Falsehoods plague elections as voters tackle Trumpian tactics

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 15, 2022. AFPPIX: From the United States to Brazil and Israel, a barrage of election-related misinformation hammered voters around the world in 2022, but many pushed back against the conspiracy-laden Trumpian tactic of sowing distrust in the democratic process.

Republican leaders and supporters “seem to be coming to terms with the way that embracing conspiracy theories has led to poor candidate selection, inefficient voter mobilization, voter cynicism, and a host of other ills,“ Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington, told AFP.

But analysts caution that many voters still believe Bolsonaro's claim, and the country's fight against disinformation remains far from over.Candidates in Israel’s November polls also increasingly followed Trump’s playbook, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s party, Likud, starting a “stop the steal” campaign as soon as the election was announced.

Orban’s party Fidesz “took maximum advantage of its media dominance... to spread factually incorrect or otherwise misleading allegations and narratives about its political opponents,“ according to a study from Hungarian think tank Political Capital. An increase in fact-checking operations compared with previous elections could not tame the disinformation -- primarily focused on the two frontrunners, Ferdinand Marcos, who went on to win by a landslide, and Leni Robredo.

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