A Brazilian believes that it is false news from neighbors rather than facts published in the newspaper

This was often shared on WhatsApp: the Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party wants to remove children from their parents at an early age. And he would have spilled baby milk bottles with a penis-shaped penis to promote homosexuality.

These are two of the many examples of false information circulating in presidential elections in this Latin American country. "It's obvious that it's wrong," said correspondent Marc Bessems. "But people still believe in it."

Sunday is the second round of the presidential election. It's between Haddad and the far right Jair Messiah Bolsonaro. In the polls, Bolsonaro is ahead. It is perceived as the South American version of Trump

. The importance of reducing airtime

These elections are very different, said Bessems: "For the first time, social media has a great influence, before the candidate with the most time to broadcast for political parties on television wins the party that wins the most airtime, the result was often clear in advance. "

This year it is not the case: Bolsonaro has connected to a false party and received only eight seconds of broadcast time before the first round. Yet he won this trick. Now he's back on big profits again. The right-wing politician is very good at using social media.

Facebook posts and WhatsApp groups have become important ways to approach people, but they are also channels where misinformation easily reaches large groups of people. Both sides of the political spectrum use it, although Bessems notes that it is mainly on the side of the right misinformation that the world is helped.