Brazil’s web flooded by Covid-19 fake news spread by Bolsonaro’s followers

Brazil is Latin America’s worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic, counting the World’s 6th record of reported cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, President Jair Bolsonaro’s followers have been spreading false information online claiming coffins from Covid-19 victims were actually empty. The fake news has grown strong, as Natalia Leal of the Brazilian fact check group Agência Lupa, reports for FRANCE 24. Subscribe to France 24 now:
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