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Number of fake statements by Brazilian president Bolsonaro 2019-2022, by month

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 13, 2022
Between January and May 2022, the president of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, made more than 780 statements containing information that the source deemed fake or distorted. Between Janaury and May 2021, the figure stood at almost 930 – an annual decline of around 18 percent.

Number of fake or distorted statements made by Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil from January 2019 to May 2022, by month

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Release date

June 2022

Region

Brazil

Survey time period

January 2019 to May 2022

Special properties

Includes repeated statements

Supplementary notes

According to the source, a statement is deemed fake if it "contains information without any factual support" and if "available data refutes it objectively." A statement is considered distorted when it features "information factually correct, but applied with the intent to deceive" others.

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